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Petition subject: Racial discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25500564

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Cambridge

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., Cambridge; committee on state administration

Selected signatures:

1. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr.

Actions taken on dates: 1946-01-02,1946-01-07

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 2, 1946 and referred to the committee on state administration and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 7, 1946 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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: fair employment practice law, establishment of a commission to be known as the state commission against discrimination, includes address, [many additional documents in folder]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1946, c.368, passed May 23, 1946

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.