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. 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. The university was named in honor of Sidney Lanier, the "poet of the Confederacy."