House Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 3139, SC1/series 230, Petition of Benjamin F. Roberts

Petition subject: School discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005529 Date of creation: 1851-03-07 Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William Schouler, Boston; committee on education Selected signatures:Benjamin F. Roberts Actions taken on dates: 1851-03-08,1851-03-10 Legislative action: Received in the House on March 8, 1851 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 10, 1851 and concurred Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: a resident of Cambridge, but previous to a few months since, for twenty-five years a citizen of Boston, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1851, Docket 3139 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.