When Paula Agnes Egbert was born on 3 December 1953, in Rapid City, Pennington, South Dakota, United States, her father, Milford Kay Egbert, was 20 and her mother, Anna Arvilla Bowen, was 17. She had at least 1 son. She died on 1 October 1991, in Tom Green, Texas, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Grace Cemetery, Caribou, Idaho, United States.
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In 1954, women finally won the right to serve on juries.
The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.
The Twenty-fourth Amendment prohibits both all the states and Congress from swaying the right to vote in elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
North German: from the personal name Egbert, composed of the ancient Germanic elements agi(l) ‘point, edge (of a sword)’ + berht ‘bright, famous’.
English (Devon): from the Middle English personal name Egbert (Old English Ecgbeorht, from ecg ‘sword’ + beorht ‘bright’). The present name in Britain usually appears to be of ancient Germanic origin (see 1 above), cognate with the English one, as the medieval name may not have survived.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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