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Petition subject: Racial discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25500518

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: J. Bernard Ferber, Boston

Selected signatures:

1. Butler R. Wilson
2. Arianna C. Sparrow
3. Lillian E. Chappelle
4. Daniel H. Miner
5. Laura E. Miner
6. Portia E. Bird
7. William Monroe Trotter
8. Geraldine L. Trotter
9. Walter E. Adams
10. Robert J. Morris
11. J. Horatio Carter
12. Lee C. Parrish

Actions taken on dates: 1906-04-06

Legislative action: Received in the House on April 6, 1906 and placed on file

Total signatures: 39

Legislative action summary: Received, placed on file

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 10

Female signatures: 15

Unidentified signatures: 14

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [males of color], [females of color], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: not column separated

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, Virginia, includes addresses, towns next to names including Cambridge, Somerville, Boston, Dorchester, Allston, Revere

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1906, c.65, passed May 7, 1906

Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.