Dr. Lulu Merle Johnson was the first black woman to earn a doctorate degree in the state of Iowa. She was a scholar of civil rights and slavery in the U.S.
Publications
- ”The Negro in Canada, slave and free”. MA Thesis, University of Iowa. 1930.
- ”The problem of slavery in the Old Northwest, 1787–1858”. PhD Dissertation, University of Iowa. 1941.
- Review of Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery, in The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. Vol. 32, No. 4 (March 1946), p. 609
- The Negro in American Life, n.d.