Louis E. Lomax

   On August 16, 1922 an African-American known by the name of Louis Emanuel Lomax was born in Valdosta, Georgia. Lomax grew up in a time in which African-American's were enlisting in World War 2. However, instead of going into war he went to school. Lomax attended Paine College where he received his Bachelor's degree (B.A.). This degree served to be one of the many degree's Lomax earned, succeeding the B.A. degree, he acquired a Masters degree from American University and a Ph.D. from Yale University.

  Lomax returned to his home state in 1947 and began working at Georgia State University where he resided as a philosophy instructor. Also during this time Lomax began working as a reporter for the Baltimore Afro-American and and the Chicago American. These two newspapers were known to target an African-American audience.

  In 1958, Lomax decided to leave the Afro-American paper and he then became a free-lance writer. During this time the free-lance article's he wrote would get published in places such as Amsterdam News and Harper's Magazine.

  Between the times of 1962-1963 Lomax wrote two books by the names of, The Negro Revolt and When The Word Is Given. 

  In 1964 Lomax became the first African-American television news broadcaster when he worked for WNTA~TV in New York City. Later, Lomax went on to serve as a news analyst for KTTV in Los Angeles and then his own show, self titled "Louis Lomax." One of the biggest accomplishments of Lomax's career was when he co-hosted a documentary on Malcolm X which became something he would be known for way after his death. Which then prompts Lomax to publish his last book entitled, "To Kill a Black Man," based off of the assassination of Malcolm X.

  Lomax then returns to teaching in 1968 this time at Hofstra University but then dies fatally on July 30, 1970 from a fatal car accident.

Works Cited

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Ritchie, Donald A. "More American Journalists to Remember." American Journalists: Getting the Story. New York: Oxford UP, 1997. 313-14. Print.