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Petition subject: Racial discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455165

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Alvin C. Tamkin, Boston; Earl S. Tyler, Watertown; committee on education

Selected signatures:

1. Alvin C. Tamkin
2. John F. Thompson

Actions taken on dates: 1956-01-04,1956-01-04

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 4, 1956 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 4, 1956 and concurred

Total signatures: 2

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, rep. [representative]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: to transfer jurisdiction to enforce the fair educational practices law from the Board of Education to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, towns next to names including Boston, Ludlow

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1956, c.334, passed May 10, 1956

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.