LOS ANGELES (AP) — Almena Lomax, a civil rights activist and journalist who covered the Patty Hearst kidnapping and the Alabama bus boycott and founded the Los Angeles Tribune newspaper, has died. She was 95.
Her son, Michael, tells the Los Angeles Times that
Lomax died March 25 in Pasadena. He is the head of the United Negro College Fund.
In the 1960s, she and her family moved from Los
Angeles to the deep South to fight segregation.
She later worked for the Examiner and Chronicle
newspapers in San Francisco, where she covered the Patty Hearst kidnapping.
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