* 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!"
1881 - Julian Francis Abele is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He will be the first Black student to enroll in the
Department of Architecture at the University of
Pennsylvania, and become the department's first Black
graduate in 1902. He will become a prominent architect, and
chief designer in the offices of Horace Trumbauer. He will
contribute to the design of more than 400 buildings,
including the Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University
(1912-15), the Central Branch of the Free Library of
Philadelphia (1918-27), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art
(1914-28). He will be the primary designer of the west
campus of Duke University (1924-54). He will never travel to
view the campus he designed because of his revulsion of
segregation then so prevalent in the South. His contributions
to the Trumbauer firm were great, but the only building for
which he will claim authorship during Trumbauer's lifetime
was the Duke University Chapel. He will join the ancestors
on April 23, 1950.
1931 - William Lacy Clay, Sr. is born in St. Louis, Missouri. He will
be elected to the House of Representatives as a Democrat in
1968 representing Missouri's First District. He will become an
advocate for environmentalism, labor issues, and social justice.
He will face ethics charges in the 1970s for billing the
government on auto trips while flying on airlines, and the
House banking scandal revealed that he had 328 overdrafts. In
1993, he will help to pass the Family and Medical Leave Act.
From 1991 until the Democrats lose control of Congress in 1995,
he will chair the House Committee on the Post Office and Civil
Service. In 2000, he will retire from the House and be
succeeded by his son, William Lacy Clay, Jr.
1940 - Jesse E. Moorland joins the ancestors in Washington, D.C.
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 III is born in Chicago, Illinois. He will
become a basketball player, playing collegiately for the
Indiana Hoosiers. He will go on to play professionally as
point guard for the Detroit Pistons from 1981 until 1994 and
will lead the "Bad Boys" to NBA championships in the 1988-89
and 1989-90 seasons. After his playing career, he will be an
executive with the Toronto Raptors, a television commentator,
an executive with the Continental Basketball Association, head
coach of the Indiana Pacers, and an executive and head coach
for the New York Knicks. He will later be the men's basketball
coach for the Florida International University (FIU) Golden
Panthers for three seasons from 2009 to 2012. He will be named
to the All-NBA First team three times and is the Pistons' all-
time leader in points, steals, games played and assists. He
will rank fifth in NBA history in assists (9,061, 9.3 apg) and
rank ninth in NBA history in steals (1,861). He will be known
for his dribbling ability as well as his ability to drive to
the basket and score. His No. 11 will be retired by the Detroit
Pistons. In 2000, he will be elected to the Basketball Hall of
Fame in his first year of eligibility.[
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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