Twentieth Century Frontierswoman : Peter Lang : 9781433198076 : 143319807X : 27 Feb 2024 : 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