*                   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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