From the formative phase of the modern black struggle for equality in the 1940s, through the high tide of activism in the 1960s and early 1970s, Lubertha Johnson remained in the vanguard of the movement in Las Vegas, patiently chipping away at the local edifice of racism.

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From the formative phase of the modern black struggle for equality in the 1940s, through the high tide of activism in the 1960s and early 1970s, Lubertha Johnson remained in the vanguard of the movement in Las Vegas, patiently chipping away at the local edifice of racism.