to the Lowndes County Historical Society and Museum, the file "consists of letters, telegraphs, FBI inter-office memos, newspaper clippings; copies of speeches and several sheets headed FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet." Death 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, 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. Witnesses reported that he was traveling at a high speed on the double-laned highway and lost control of his rented Ford station wagon while attempting to pass another motorist. An investigation by New Mexico State Police determined that Lomax was not wearing his seatbelt and was ejected from his car after it overturned three times. Pronounced dead at the scene, he died due to head and internal injuries. His 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 Lomax was working on a documentary concerning the role played by the FBI in the death of Malcolm X, and claimed that Lomax's own death may have been connected to that project. Selected works The Reluctant African (1960) The Negro Revolt (1962) When the Word Is Given: A Report on Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and the Black Muslim World (1963) Thailand: The War That Is, The War That Will Be (1967) To Kill a Black Man: The Shocking Parallel in the Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. (1968) References External links A Guide to the Louis E. Lomax papers, 82-30. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno 1922 births 1970 deaths People from Valdosta, Georgia African-American journalists 20th-century American journalists African-American non-fiction writers American male journalists American tax resisters American University alumni Paine College alumni Road incident deaths in New Mexico Writers from Georgia (U.S. state) 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers 20th-century African-American people