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Petition subject: Racial discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25500530

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Louis Lobel, Boston; committee on labor and industries

Selected signatures:

1. Joseph S. Shubow

Actions taken on dates: 1943-01-18,1943-01-19

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 18, 1943 and referred to the committee on labor and industries and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 19, 1943 and concurred

Total signatures: 1

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, Rabbi, President, New England Division, American Jewish Congress

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: public utility corporations and employment agencies be prohibited from inquiring into the religious affiliations of applicants for employment or to have records of the race, creed, color or descent of such applicants, includes address, [additional documents include "Report of the Massachusetts Commission on the Employment Problems of Negroes"]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1943, c.39, passed June 8, 1943

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.