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* 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 - Isiah 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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