Twentieth Century Frontierswoman: A Rhetorical Biography of Almena Davis Lomax, Journalist - Paperbackby Andre E. Johnson (Other), Chandra Snell Clark (Author) 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