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Petition subject: School discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029724

Date of creation: 1851-02

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William Schouler, Boston; committee on education

Selected signatures:

1. Jonas W. Clark
2. Emiliano F.B. Mundrucu
3. Jeremiah Harvey
4. Henry Weeden
5. Thomas Dalton
6. William Lawson
7. Benjamin P. Bassett
8. Charles Rose
9. William Brown
10. John Wright
11. John P. Coburn
12. James Johnson
13. Samuel Wilson
14. Jacob Sampson
15. William James Watkins
16. Ottawa West
17. Jeremiah Stewart
18. John H. Sterling
19. John W.B. Smith
20. William B. Robinson
21. Robert Johnson
22. Patrick H. Allen
23. Henry Randolph
24. Peter M. Howard
25. Thomas Cummings
26. Joseph N. Butler
27. Thomas G. Williams
28. Peter F. Gill
29. George Washington
30. Lewis Hayden
31. W.H. Logan
32. Leonard A. Grimes
33. Lemuel Burr

Actions taken on dates: 1851-03-08,1851-03-10

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 8, 1851 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 10, 1851 and concurred

Total signatures: 42

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

Males of color signatures: 42

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: constituting a portion of the citizens of Boston, being deprived of the advantages of Common School Privileges, solely on account of complexion, [males of color], ["legal voters"], ["colored men and their families"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: Includes addresses; men signed for families, representing 186 peoples

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1851, Docket 3139

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.