*               Today in Black History - April 30               *

1864 - A regiment captures a rebel battery after fighting rearguard action.
        Six infantry regiments check rebel troops at Jenkins' Ferry, Saline
        River, Arkansas. The troops are so enraged by atrocities committed
        at Poison Spring two weeks earlier, that the Second Kansas Colored
        Volunteers went into battle shouting, "Remember Poison Spring!"

1931 - William Lacy Clay is born in St. Louis, Missouri.  He will become a
        congressman from Missouri and chairman of the Post Office and Civil
        Service Committee.

1940 - Jesse E. Moorland joins the ancestors in Washington, DC.  He was a
        clergyman, key force in fund-raising for African American YMCAs, and
        a board member of Howard University. The donation of his substantial
        private library to Howard forms the basis of the Moorland-Spingarn
        Research Center on the university's campus.

1961 - lsiah Lord Thomas is born in Chicago, Illinois.  One of nine children
        raised by a single mother, Thomas will become a basketball star,
        first for Indiana University and later for the Detroit Pistons,
        where he will lead the team to 1989 and 1990 NBA championships.

1983 - Robert C. Maynard becomes the first African American to gain a
        controlling interest in a major metropolitan newspaper when he buys
        the Oakland Tribune from Gannett.

1994 - The counting of ballots begins in South Africa's first all-race
        elections.

1994 - Some 100,000 men, women and children fleeing ethnic slaughter in
        Rwanda cross into neighboring Tanzania.

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