Lulu Merle Johnson (September 14, 1907 – October 19, 1995) was an American historian and university administrator. She was the second African-American woman to earn a PhD in history in the United States, and the first to do so in the state of Iowa.[2] P. G. Dagbovie has described Johnson as being part of the “first distinguishable coterie of formally trained black women historians” in the U.S.[3] She became the namesake of Johnson County, Iowa, in September 2020.
