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Petition subject: Racial discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455196

Date of creation: 1885-05-30

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Henry J. Wells, Middlesex

Selected signatures:

1. E.G. Walker [Edwin G. Walker]
2. James Monroe Trotter
3. William O. Armstrong
4. George H. Worthington
5. Joseph N. Butler
6. George H. Williams
7. George H. Johnson
8. William Coombs

Actions taken on dates: 1885-06-01

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on June 1, 1885

Total signatures: 51

Legislative action summary: Received

Males of color signatures: 51

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [males of color], ["members of the Robert G. Shaw veteran association and others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: to punish persons making discrimination in public places on account of race or color, Head Quarters, Robert G. Shaw Veteran Association, late war for the union, liberty of the colored race, Civil War, occupations, military ranks, towns next to names including Cambridge

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1885, c.316, passed June 11, 1885

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.