*               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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