Layle Lane (November 27, 1893 – February 2, 1976) was an American educator and civil rights activist.

Lane was elected the first black female American Federation of Teachers vice president.

She ran five times as a candidate in the Socialist Party for public office.

[4] She helped to plan and organize the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1941.

Lane ran a summer camp on her Pennsylvania farm for impoverished black children from the inner-city.