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Petition subject: School discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029725

Date of creation: 1850-06

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William Schouler, Boston; committee on education

Selected signatures:

1. Dr. Walter Channing
2. Edmund Jackson
3. William Jackson
4. Charles H. Canfield
5. Francis Jackson
6. Charles Palmer
7. Wendell Phillips
8. Ellis Gray Loring
9. Joseph Southwick
10. Charles Sumner
11. Charles K. Whipple
12. Walter Channing
13. William F. Channing
14. Franklin Rand
15. George W. Light
16. George C. Rand
17. Leonard Jackson
18. Robert F. Wallcut
19. William Lloyd Garrison
20. William C. Brown
21. Andrew Cushing
22. Jesse Peck
23. Francis George Shaw
24. Edmund Quincy
25. Theodore Parker
26. Samuel Philbrick
27. William I. Bowditch
28. Samuel Gilmore
29. George Gilmore
30. James B. Yerrinton
31. John G. Palfrey
32. George W. Bosworth
33. Samuel P. Cheever
34. James N. Buffum
35. Caleb Easton
36. Robert Roberts

Actions taken on dates: 1851-03-08,1851-03-10

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 8, 1851 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 10, 1851 and concurred

Total signatures: 137

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 137

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: Includes occupations and towns next to names including Boston, Malden, Roxbury, Dedham, Brookline, Dorchester, Newton, Salem, Stoughton, Hanover, Warren, Braintree, Charlestown, Bridgewater, Plympton, Kingston, Hanson, Abington, East Bridgewater, South Hingham, Dennis, Harwich, Plymouth, Raynham, Holliston, Cambridge, Cambridgeport, Lynn, Lowell, North Bridgewater; signature numbers different from front of petition

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1851, Docket 3139

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.