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Iowa County Chooses to Be Named for a Black Professor, Not a Slave Owner
A county in Iowa cut ties Thursday with a slave-owning U.S. vice president for which it had been named, choosing instead to be named for a professor who was the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in the state. They shared a surname: Johnson. Johnson County chose Lulu Merle Johnson, who taught...
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It is no longer Johnson county.
It is now named Johnson county.
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