Senate Unpassed Legislation 1895, rejected, SC1/series 231, Petition of Charles E. French

Petition subject: Racial Discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763654 Date of creation: 1895-02 Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Senate judiciary committee Selected signatures:Charles E. French Total signatures: 1 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: [\"…recognizing the Creator's intent that negroes should be known as a distinct race, and that the Ethiopian cannot change his skin by legislative enactment, I would suggest that, as the term 'colored' is obnoxious to certain oversensitive persons, the word 'unbleached' be substitu therefor, and if any man shall thereafter be known to utter the offensive epithet aforesaid, he shall be hanged by the neck until he is dead dead dead and may the Lord have mercy on his sinful, wicked soul.\"], [additional documents include bill to terminate the use of the term colored as applied to persons, relative to the use of the term colored in certain records and copies of records, births, marriages, deaths, vital records, George Teamoh] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1895, rejected 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.