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Petition subject: Discrimination and places of public amusement

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935191

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Cambridge

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John I. Baker, Beverly; committee on better enforcement of the laws

Selected signatures:

1. Aaron Molineaux Hewlett

Actions taken on dates: 1866-04-26,1866-04-27

Legislative action: Received in the House on April 26, 1866 and referred to the committee on better enforcement of the laws and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on April 27, 1866 and concurred

Total signatures: 1

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

Males of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: a colored citizen, [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: employed at Harvard University to teach gymnastics and physical training and development of the students there, six years, tickets, daughter, admission, parquet, Boston Theatre, refused admission, solely on account of our being colored, and were sent for seats into the gallery, which was uncomfortable and inconvenient, licensed, law, act, no person should be so excluded on account of color, evidence and proofs, no redress, theatre, theater, place of public amusement, forfeit its license and be held liable for all the penalities for exhibiting without a license

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1866, c.252, passed May 23, 1866

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.