Passed Acts; St. 1933, c.117, SC1/series 229, Petition of Abraham K. Cohen

Petition subject: Racial discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455118 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Malcolm L. Bell, Marblehead; joint committee on the judiciary; committee on legal affairs Selected signatures:Abraham K. Cohen Actions taken on dates: 1933-01-16,1933-01-17,1933-01-19 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 16, 1933 and referred to the joint committee on the judiciary and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 17, 1933 and nonconcurred and referred to the committee on legal affairs and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 19, 1933 and concurred Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, nonconcurred, 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: Hotel Somerset, to prohibit discrimination against individuals, classes, and sects by owners of public resorts and places of entertainment Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1933, c.117, passed April 6, 1933 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.