African-American journalist Louis Emanuel Lomax was born on August 16, 1922 in Valdosta, Georgia. He was the first African American television journalist to appear on television in 1959. Lomax’s pieces to journalism are both notable and significant. He did a lot of hard work to achieve Lomax was born into a well-known Valdosta black family in 1922. His parents’ names were Emanuel C. Smith and Sarah Louise Lomax, both of Georgia. His uncle who raised him, Reverend Thomas A. Lomax was, over the progression of Lomax’s career, the principal of their local high schools. After the U.S. entered World War II, he attended Paine College in Augusta. After finishing his Bachelor of Arts at Paine, Lomax received his Master of Arts in 1944 from American
