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Petition subject: School discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029721

Date of creation: 1850-06

Petition location: Boston

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

Selected signatures:

1. A.R. Willard
2. Paton Stewart
3. John Parker
4. James Carrigan
5. Charles C. Leighton
6. Ezra Bearse
7. Robert B. Burns

Actions taken on dates: 1851-03-19,1851-03-20

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 19, 1851 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 20, 1851 and concurred

Total signatures: 112

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 112

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

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.