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Petition subject: Racial discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455172

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Michael A. Nazzaro Jr., Boston; committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

1. Edward J. McCormack Jr.
2. Michael A. Nazzaro Jr.

Actions taken on dates: 1961-01-05,1961-01-09

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 5, 1961 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 9, 1961 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, attorney general, rep. [representative]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: petitions in equity in the Superior Court by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1961, c.570, passed May 27, 1961

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.