Lanier University

Lanier University was a short-lived private university, located in today's Morningside-Lenox Park neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States.^[1] It was notable for its connections with the second Ku Klux Klan, which was also based in Atlanta and which owned the university for a time.

Charles Lewis Fowler, a Baptist minister, founded Lanier in 1917. He hoped for financing from Coca-Cola magnate Asa Candler but instead got backing from the Georgia Baptist Association. Lanier was to be Georgia's first co-ed Baptist college.^[2] The university was named in honor of Sidney Lanier, the "poet of the Confederacy".