An Iowa County Once Named for a Slave-Owning Vice President is Now Named After a Trailblazing Black Woman
by J.L. Cook from on (#5KJHG)
Another slave owner's legacy took an L this week after officials in Johnson County, Iowa unanimously decided to rename the county after Lulu Merle Johnson- a long-time academic who was the first Black woman to earn a doctorate from the University of Iowa and in the entire state itself.