*               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,
        alumnus and trustee 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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