Passed Resolves; Resolves 1943, c.39, SC1/series 228, Petition of William Harrison

Petition subject: Racial discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25500528 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Roxbury Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Maurice M. Goldman, Suffolk; committee on labor and industries Selected signatures:William Harrison Actions taken on dates: 1943-01-19,1943-01-20 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 19, 1943 and referred to the committee on labor and industries and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 20, 1943 and concurred Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizen Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: to prevent discrimination in certain employment, by persons operating employment offices and others, because of race, color, religion or nationality, newspapers and radio broadcasting stations, innkeepers, places of amusement and education, includes address, [additional documents include "Report of the Massachusetts Commission on the Employment Problems of Negroes"] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1943, c.39, passed June 8, 1943 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.