*               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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