* 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 were 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
be a congressman from Missouri and become chairman of the
Post Office and Civil Service Committee.
1940 - Jesse E. Moorland dies 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 formed 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 be comes the first African American to gain
a controlling interest in a major metropolitan newspaper
when he buys the Oakland Tribune from Gannett.
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The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
"InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing America - The African American
Book of Days," and independent research by the
Information Man.
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