Hallie Almena Lomax (née Davis) (July 23, 1915 – March 25, 2011) was an African American journalist and civil rights activist.
Her parents, Clifford and Geneva Davis,[1] moved the family to Chicago when Almena was a child, and that is where she and her sister were raised.
In 1946, she was one of three winners of the Wendell Willkie Award, established to honor the best black journalists in the United States.
[3][5][6][7][8] Lomax was a contestant on the 3rd March 1955 edition of You Bet Your Life, hosted by Groucho Marx, alongside Joe Louis.
[6] One of her surviving children is Michael L. Lomax, former chairman of the Fulton County (Ga.) Commission, former president of Dillard University, one of the historically black colleges, in New Orleans, La., and current president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund.