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Petition subject: Racial discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455187

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Dorchester

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Joseph A. Melley, Suffolk; committee on education

Selected signatures:

1. Edward L. Schoenberg

Actions taken on dates: 1949-02-01,1949-02-01

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 1, 1949 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 1, 1949 and concurred

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizen

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: to provide for fair educational practices and equality of educational opportunity and to eliminate and prevent discrimination in education because of race, religion, color or national origin, includes address

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1949, c.726, passed August 22, 1949

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.