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Petition subject: Racial discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455169

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Guy W. Cox, Suffolk

Selected signatures:

1. G.W. Watson
2. W.R. Coghill
3. Charles H. Seales
4. Eugene H. Green
5. Roscoe C. Merchant
6. Spencer Ruffin
7. Ralph W. Roberts
8. James H. Bland
9. Louis F. Middleton

Actions taken on dates: 1906-04-24

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on April 24, 1906 and placed on file

Total signatures: 124

Legislative action summary: Received, placed on file

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 124

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, signers of the Charles Sumner Rep Club [Charles Sumner Republican Club], [males of color], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, Virginia, includes addresses, rev., reverend next to signatures, Boston, towns next to names including South Medford, [Revere?], [Roxbury?]

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.