Twentieth Century Frontierswoman

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

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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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A Rich Context: The Black Press, Black Women Journalists, Black Californians, and Black Los Angelenos African American Women's Rhetorical Theory/Afrafeminist Ideology as Lens Rhetorical Biography Establishing a Journalistic Voice: 1940s1950s Personal Nadir: 1958.