Lomax, Louis Emanuel
1922-1970 · Contribution: 1958-1968
Broadcast journalist; author
Became the first African American television journalist in 1958 when he joined New York’s WNTA-TV, then co-produced with Mike Wallace The Hate That Hate Produced (1959), the influential documentary that introduced most white Americans to the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X, and Elijah Muhammad
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Quick facts
- Born
- 1922, Valdosta, Georgia
- Active since
- 1958
- Category
- Press & Photography
- Best known for
- First Black television journalist; co-producer of The Hate That Hate Produced
Impact on the world
Lomax broke the color line of television journalism and, in bringing Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam to a national audience, helped shape how mainstream America first encountered Black nationalism.
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