*               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 - Riots 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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        The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
        "InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing America - The African American
        Book of Days," "Before the Mayflower", "Black Firsts" and
        independent research by the Information Man.
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