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George W. McLaurin (September 16, 1894 – September 4, 1968) was an American professor, the first African American to attend the University of Oklahoma. He was the successful plaintiff in an important civil rights case against the university, McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (1950).
Palmer was made skipper of the Maria Giovanni in January 1941, and the ship was used to ferry supplies to the beleaguered town of Tobruk. [8] [9] He "won fame through his cussedness on the Spud Run", [11] and by his willingness to carry any cargo. The supply of Tobruk by Palmer and others was known as the "Ferry Service". [12]
35 km (22 mi) from Rome. 4,000 lower-ranked British, South African and Ghurka prisoners, mostly from the surrender of Tobruk, were held in two compounds of tents, [21] with very poor conditions and food shortages. Many prisoners escaped into the Apennine Mountains when guards deserted as the Italian Armistice was announced on 8 September 1943. [22]
After surrounding Tobruk, the WDF had exhausted the ample Italian supplies captured at Capuzzo and Sollum; O'Connor directed that the supplies flowing through the port of Sollum (350 long tons (356 t) per day in early January and 500 long tons (508 t) daily late in the month) to the 10th and 11th Field Depots he had set up about 43 mi (70 km ...
Regardless of HB 3158, prisoners will rejoin society, and it is prudent to take such common-sense measures to ensure against their recidivism. While this reform will help Oklahoma’s labor ...
Jul. 25—Fifty years ago on Thursday, what some consider the most destructive riot in U.S. history, erupted at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. July 27, 1973, started as a regular day at ...
Aerial photograph of the port of Tobruk during the 1941 siege. The small port of Tobruk in Italian Cyrenaica had been fortified by the Italians from 1935. Behind two old outlying forts, they constructed a novel fortification, consisting of a double line of concrete-lined trenches 54 km (34 mi) long, connecting 128 weapons pits protected by concealed anti-tank ditches but the fortifications ...
The Oklahoma Corrections Department has agreed that condemned prisoners in the future can have a personal spiritual advisor in the execution chamber. Oklahoma to allow death row inmates a personal ...