Walter P. Lomax Jr.

Walter P. Lomax Jr. (July 31, 1932 – October 10, 2013)[1] was an American physician, health administrator, and philanthropist from Philadelphia.

Between the 1960s and 2000s, Lomax established a network of neighborhood clinics and correctional healthcare services and acquired WURD, then the only Black-owned and operated radio station in Pennsylvania.

One of his patients was Martin Luther King Jr., whom Lomax treated for an upper respiratory infection in 1968.

The business grew quickly and by the 1990s was managing healthcare workers at seventy prisons in ten states.

[4] In 1994, Lomax purchased the Jubilee Farm Plantation, where his great-grandmother had been enslaved, in King William County, Virginia.