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.

"The remarkable life of Almena Davis Lomax [1915-2011] is beckoned into the light in Twentieth Century Frontierswoman by Chandra Snell Clark. A child at the start of the Great Black Migration, Almena moves west and then as a young adult she hones her journalism craft at Charlotta Bass’ California Eagle. Almena Davis soon created the Los Angeles Tribune, a brassy Black weekly that was published from 1941 to 1960. As Almena Davis Lomax, her political views evolved, and were contradictory too, which is OK because her story and contributions to American journalism history deserve to be known."Wayne Dawkins, Chair, Department of Multimedia Journalism, and Professor of Professional Practice, Morgan State University, School of Global Journalism and Communication; Author of Black Journalists: The NABJ Story and City Son: Andrew W. Cooper’s Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn