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This rhetorical biography illustrates the manner in which African American woman newspaper publisher and journalist Almena Davis Lomax sought to persuade her readers of her civil rights vision—through her Los Angeles Tribune　editorials, columns, and other writings—from the 1940s through the mid-1970s, a period that witnessed phenomenal change in the area of civil rights for African Americans and other oppressed groups in the United States.　 While African American women journalists' contributions to the United States' long civil rights struggle via their writings and speeches—particularly those of the late nineteenth, early twentieth century and late twentieth century—have received greater attention in recent years, there is yet much to glean from the Black women journalists who built upon the path set by journalist-activist foremothers such as Mara W. Stewart, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Anna Julia Cooper and others—African American women journalists of the mid-twentieth century. This project contributes to the larger discourse on race, rhetoric and media by recovering the work of a little-known African American newspaper publisher and journalist of this era, thus adding to the body of knowledge concerning an often-overlooked group for not only journalism, media, communication, history, African American studies and women’s studies scholars, but also for any reader with an interest in these areas.

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Chandra Snell Clark's meticulously researched and gracefully written rhetorical biography about the courageous Almena Davis Lomax, makes a major contribution to journalism, Black and media history, society, and conversations about race. By providing critical information, analysis, and insights into the career and work of this largely unheralded publisher and editor of the Los Angeles Tribune, Clark elevates and highlights that Lomax, much like the brave and tenacious Black women pioneering journalists who were her predecessors, challenged the status quo and used her weekly newspaper to advocate for, protest, and champion causes. Jinx, Broussard, Bart R. Swanson Endowed Memorial Professor, Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University; Author, African American Foreign Correspondents: A History and Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: Four Pioneering Black Women Journalists In Twentieth Century Frontierswoman: A Rhetorical Biography of Almena Davis Lomax Chandra Snell Clark recovers a lesser-known, but incredibly significant voice of the twentieth-century freedom struggle from the footnotes of U.S. history and in so doing contributes to the persistent intervention of the 'great men paradigm.' Embracing the 'passionate attachments' of an 'Afrafeminist lens,' Clark illuminates how Lomax utilized 'personal journalism' in her Los Angeles Tribune editorials and columns to advocate for human rights in a similar vein as had her predecessors Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Ann Shadd-Cary and in so doing served as a cultural interpreter and spiritual guide for her generation and beyond. This monograph should be on the reading list of anyone interested in the long history of U.S. freedom struggle and to those committed to the ongoing global social justice crusade. Lori Amber Roessner, Professor and Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, School of Journalism and Electronic Media, University of Tennessee Knoxville; Co-editor, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Political Pioneer of the Press: Her Voice, Her Pen, and Her Transnational Crusade for Social Justice, and Author, Inventing Baseball Heroes: Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson and the Sporting Press in America Chandra Snell Clark's book, Twentieth Century Frontierswoman: A Rhetorical Biography of Almena Davis Lomax, Journalist is recommended reading for those interested in pioneers in journalism, Black history and gender studies. Pick up the book and you'll expand your knowledge about diversity and justice. Dorothy Bland, Professor, Mayborn School of Journalism, University of North Texas The remarkable life of Almena Davis Lomax [1915-2011] is beckoned into the light in Twentieth Century Frontierswoman by Chandra Snell Clark. A child at the start of the Great Black Migration, Almena moves west and then as a young adult she hones her journalism craft at Charlotta Bass' California Eagle. Almena Davis soon created the Los Angeles Tribune, a brassy Black weekly that was published from 1941 to 1960. As Almena Davis Lomax, her political views evolved, and were contradictory too, which is OK because her story and contributions to American journalism history deserve to be known. Wayne Dawkins, Chair, Department of Multimedia Journalism, and Professor of Professional Practice, Morgan State University, School of Global Journalism and Communication; Author of Black Journalists: The NABJ Story and City Son: Andrew W. Cooper's Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn

"""Chandra Snell Clark's book, Twentieth Century Frontierswoman: A Rhetorical Biography of Almena Davis Lomax, Journalist is recommended reading for those interested in pioneers in journalism, Black history and gender studies. Pick up the book and you'll expand your knowledge about diversity and justice."" Dorothy Bland, Professor, Mayborn School of Journalism, University of North Texas ""The remarkable life of Almena Davis Lomax [1915-2011] is beckoned into the light in Twentieth Century Frontierswoman by Chandra Snell Clark. A child at the start of the Great Black Migration, Almena moves west and then as a young adult she hones her journalism craft at Charlotta Bass’ California Eagle. Almena Davis soon created the Los Angeles Tribune, a brassy Black weekly that was published from 1941 to 1960. As Almena Davis Lomax, her political views evolved, and were contradictory too, which is OK because her story and contributions to American journalism history deserve to be known."" Wayne Dawkins, Chair, Department of Multimedia Journalism, and Professor of Professional Practice, Morgan State University, School of Global Journalism and Communication; Author of Black Journalists: The NABJ Story and City Son: Andrew W. Cooper’s Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn ""In Twentieth Century Frontierswoman: A Rhetorical Biography of Almena Davis Lomax Chandra Snell Clark recovers a lesser-known, but incredibly significant voice of the twentieth-century freedom struggle from the footnotes of U.S. history and in so doing contributes to the persistent intervention of the ‘great men paradigm.’ Embracing the 'passionate attachments' of an 'Afrafeminist lens,' Clark illuminates how Lomax utilized 'personal journalism' in her Los Angeles Tribune editorials and columns to advocate for human rights in a similar vein as had her predecessors Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Ann Shadd-Cary and in so doing served as a cultural interpreter and spiritual guide for her generation and beyond. This monograph should be on the reading list of anyone interested in the long history of U.S. freedom struggle and to those committed to the ongoing global social justice crusade."" Lori Amber Roessner, Professor and Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, School of Journalism and Electronic Media, University of Tennessee Knoxville; Co-editor, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Political Pioneer of the Press: Her Voice, Her Pen, and Her Transnational Crusade for Social Justice, and Author, Inventing Baseball Heroes: Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson and the Sporting Press in America ""Chandra Snell Clark’s meticulously researched and gracefully written rhetorical biography about the courageous Almena Davis Lomax, makes a major contribution to journalism, Black and media history, society, and conversations about race. By providing critical information, analysis, and insights into the career and work of this largely unheralded publisher and editor of the Los Angeles Tribune, Clark elevates and highlights that Lomax, much like the brave and tenacious Black women pioneering journalists who were her predecessors, challenged the status quo and used her weekly newspaper to advocate for, protest, and champion causes."" Jinx, Broussard, Bart R. Swanson Endowed Memorial Professor, Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University; Author, African American Foreign Correspondents: A History and Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: Four Pioneering Black Women Journalists"

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"Chandra Snell Clark is Associate Professor of Speech at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee. A former journalist and public affairs specialist, she earned her Ph.D. in communication from Florida State University. Her work has appeared in Political Pioneer of the Press: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Transnational Crusade for Social Justice; The Griot: The Journal of African American Studies; American Journalism; and other publications. She has performed her original, award-winning dramatic monologue, ""Through Voice and Pen: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the First Amendment,"" at colleges, festivals, and conferences throughout the country."

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