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Petition subject: Racial discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25500663

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John F. Thompson, Ludlow; Frank S. Giles Jr., Methuen; committee on mercantile affairs

Selected signatures:

1. John F. Thompson
2. Frank S. Giles Jr.

Actions taken on dates: 1959-01-14,1959-01-15

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 14, 1959 and referred to the committee on mercantile affairs and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 15, 1959 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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: discrimination because of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry in multiple dwellings or contiguously located housing accommodations, towns next to names including Ludlow, Methuen

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1959, c.239, passed April 22, 1959

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.