title: Lubertha Johnson
text: # Lubertha Johnson
  
  Lubertha Miller Johnson (July 22, 1906 Ackerman, Mississippi – January 6, 1996 Las, Vegas, Nevada) was an African-American nurse, civil rights campaigner and anti-poverty activist based in Paradise Valley, Nevada. She was known as the first black nurse in southern Nevada, and the president of the Las Vegas chapter of the NAACP.
  
  She was a member of Gamma Phi Delta sorority. The annual Lubertha Johnson Award of the American Association of University Women is named in her honor.
  
  