*      Today in Black History - June 25                   *

1876 - The most famous Native American uprising, at Little Big Horn, begins
        in the Dakota territories.  General George Armstrong Custer leads
        three U.S. Army battalions to their deaths, including Isaiah Dorman,
        an African American cavalryman, scout, and intermediary between the
        Sioux and the United States government, who had warned Custer of
        the hostile Native American presence.

1933 - James Howard Meredith, the first African American student at the
        University of Mississippi, is born.

1935 - Eddie Floyd, rhythm and blues recording artist ("California Girl,"
        "Knock on Wood") is born.

1935 - Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium.

1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802
        forbidding racial discrimination in war industries and government
        service and creating the Federal Employment Practices Committee.

1942 - Willis Reed, basketball hall-of-famer center with the New York
        Knicks, is born.

1948 - Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 rounds to retain the
        heavyweight championship of the world.

1950 - Jimmie Walker, comedian ("JJ" on "Good Times," "At Ease") is born in
        the Bronx, New York City.

1950 - Charles H. Houston is posthumously awarded the NAACP's Spingarn
        Medal for his legal work with the association Legal Committee.  He
        is cited as a "stalwart defender of democracy, inspired teacher of
        youth, and leader in the legal profession."

1964 - Racially motivated disturbances erupt in Saint Augustine, Florida,
        when a mob of 800 whites attacks part of a parade of several
        hundred African Americans participating in an integration parade.

1968 - Lincoln Alexander of Hamilton West in Ontario, Canada, is the first
        Canadian of African descent to become a member of the Canadian
        Parliament.

1968 - Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his first major league game playing
        for the San Francisco Giants.

1975 - Mozambique gains its independence from Portugal.  Samora M. Machel,
        leader of the Mozambique Liberation Front, becomes the republic's
        first president.

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