Passed Acts; St. 1941, c.170, SC1/series 229, Petition of Edwin S. Seldon

Petition subject: Racial discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455198 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Cook, Boston; committee on labor and industries Selected signatures:Edwin S. SeldonLeon E. BaileySamuel AbelowAlice SolomonsHope Littlefield Actions taken on dates: 1941-01-09,1941-01-13 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 9, 1941 and referred to the committee on labor and industries and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 13, 1941 and concurred Total signatures: 5 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3 Female signatures: 2 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [males of color], [females of color], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: to prevent discrimination in employment and in granting public welfare relief to persons because of race, color, or religion, public works and projects, agencies of the state employment service and licensed employment agencies, towns next to names including Boston, Cambridge, Brookline, Reading Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1941, c.170, passed April 9, 1941 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.