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Petition subject: School discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763620

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John F. Meaney, Blackstone; committee on education

Selected signatures:

1. Norman H. White
2. Edward A. McSweeney

Actions taken on dates: 1912-01-15,1912-01-19

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 15, 1912 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 19, 1912 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, ["another"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: economic and physical condition of certain school children, public education, public schools, economic efficiency, physical defects, training, education has been sacrified to form, information substituted for knowledge, lack of suitable equipment for life's work, industry, chance, casual occupation, discontented, mental, intellectual, intelligence, waste, preventable disease, dependence, crime, insanity, state board of education, productive vocations, employment, reform, inefficiency, in text of accompanying resolve: number and representation of racial derivation and social condition, citizenship, towns next to names including Brookline, Boston

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1912, H 728 committee on education - leave to withdraw

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.