14 Facts About Louis Lomax

Louis Emanuel Lomax was an African-American journalist and author.

Louis Lomax's parents were Emanuel C Smith and Sarah Louise Lomax.

Louis Lomax began his journalism career at the Afro-American and the Chicago Defender.

In 1959, Louis Lomax told his colleague Mike Wallace about the Nation of Islam.

Louis Lomax later became a freelance writer, and his articles were published in publications such as Harper's, Life, Pageant, The Nation, and The New Leader.

Louis Lomax's subjects included the Civil Rights Movement, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party.

From 1964 to 1968, Louis Lomax hosted a semi-weekly television program on KTTV in Los Angeles.

Louis Lomax was a supporter of several civil rights organizations, including the Congress of Racial Equality, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation maintained a file on Louis Lomax containing over 150 pages.

Louis Lomax had received a $15,000 Esso Foundation grant and was writing a three-volume work about black history at the time of his death.

On July 30,1970, Louis Lomax was returning to New York after completing a lecture tour on the West Coast when he died in a car accident along Interstate 40,26 miles east of Santa Rosa, New Mexico.

An investigation by New Mexico State Police determined that Louis Lomax was not wearing his seatbelt and was ejected from his car after it overturned three times.

Louis Lomax's body was identified by his Hofstra class ring.

Karl Evanzz, a staff writer for The Washington Post, wrote in his 1992 book The Judas Factor: The Plot to Kill Malcolm X that Louis Lomax was working on a documentary concerning the role played by the FBI in the death of Malcolm X, and claimed that Louis Lomax's own death may have been connected to that project.