When Velda Fern Copeland was born on 1 February 1937, in Arkansas, United States, her father, William Martin Copeland, was 40 and her mother, Louisa Ames, was 28. She married Bobby Gene Rogers on 1 February 1956. She lived in Bokchito Township, Bryan, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. She died on 2 August 1992, in Crane, Crane, Texas, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Crane, Crane, Texas, United States.
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Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Many Native Americans from Oklahoma were once again employed as code talkers during WWII to create a code impenetrable by enemies. Rather than Choctaw, a Comanche-language code was developed. Several of these men were sent to invade Normandy to send messages. None of the men were killed and the Comanche code was never broken.
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.
English and Scottish: habitational name from Copeland in Cumbria or Coupland in Northumberland, both named with Old Norse kaupa-land ‘bought land’, a feature worthy of note during the early Middle Ages, when land was rarely sold, but rather held by feudal tenure and handed down from one generation to the next.
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