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Petition subject: Racial discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25500514

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Lynn

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Frank P. Bennett Jr., Saugus

Selected signatures:

1. R.I. Gaines
2. H.K. Spearman
3. William Harrison
4. Amos Frieson
5. Emma Cass
6. Delia Johnson
7. Anna Morse
8. Ethel Jane Richardson
9. Kathryn Spearman
10. Lucy E. Richardson
11. Milton Roscoe Geary
12. Herbert C. Muncey

Actions taken on dates: 1906-04-06

Legislative action: Received in the House on April 6, 1906 and placed on file

Total signatures: 27

Legislative action summary: Received, placed on file

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 7

Female signatures: 18

Unidentified signatures: 2

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [males of color], [females of color], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: not column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, Virginia, rev., reverend next to names, includes addresses, towns next to names including Winthrop, Cambridge

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.