*               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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