Los Angeles Tribune (1941-1960)

Collection

Identifier: SPC-2022-029

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection contains seven issues of the Los Angeles Tribune; a newspaper published in Los Angeles by civil rights activist, Almena Lomax. The newspaper ran from 1941-1960 and was published for African American residents of Los Angeles.

Dates

October 12, 1941; August 24, 1942; October 19, 1942; November 30, 1945; December 14, 1942; March 26, 1945

Creator

Los Angeles Tribune (firm) (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

There are no access restrictions on this collection.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Archives and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical materials and not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Biographical / Historical

Hallie Almena Davis Lomax was born in Galveston, Texas, on July 23, 1915, the daughter of Clifford and Geneva Davis.

From 1935-1941 Lomax worked as a journalist for the California Eagle, an African American newspaper. In 1941 Lomax founded the Los Angeles Tribune, a weekly newspaper of which she served as editor and chief writer. In 1943 Lucius W. Lomax, Jr. became the publisher and financier for the Tribune. Almena and Lucius married in 1949 and divorced in 1957.

In the late 1950s Lomax became active in the Civil Rights Movement and traveled to the South as a reporter for the Los Angeles Tribune. She covered the Montgomery Bus Boycott, during which time she met Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1960 she ceased publishing the Los Angeles Tribune, and the following year Lomax and her children moved to Tuskegee, Alabama, for six months to cover the civil rights movement. She later moved back to California where she worked as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner. Lomax died on March 25, 2011, in Pasadena, California.

Sources: Almena Lomax Papers, Emory University: https://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/lomaxalmena1091