Twentieth Century Frontierswoman

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.

• 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: 1940s–1950s – Personal Nadir: 1958.

"In Twentieth Century Frontierswoman: A Rhetorical Biography of Almena Davis Lomax Chandra Snell Clark recovers a lesser-known, but incredibly significant voice of the twentieth-century freedom struggle from the footnotes of U.S. history and in so doing contributes to the persistent intervention of the ‘great men paradigm.’ Embracing the 'passionate attachments' of an 'Afrafeminist lens,' Clark illuminates how Lomax utilized 'personal journalism' in her Los Angeles Tribune editorials and columns to advocate for human rights in a similar vein as had her predecessors Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Ann Shadd-Cary and in so doing served as a cultural interpreter and spiritual guide for her generation and beyond. This monograph should be on the reading list of anyone interested in the long history of U.S. freedom struggle and to those committed to the ongoing global social justice crusade."Lori Amber Roessner, Professor and Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, School of Journalism and Electronic Media, University of Tennessee Knoxville; Co-editor, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Political Pioneer of the Press: Her Voice, Her Pen, and Her Transnational Crusade for Social Justice, and Author, Inventing Baseball Heroes: Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson and the Sporting Press in America