Senate Unpassed Legislation 1884, committee on public service - leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Sumner National Independent League

Petition subject: Racial Discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950607 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John A. Coffey, Boston; committee on public service Selected signatures:Sumner National Independent League Actions taken on dates: 1884-02-13,1884-02-14 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 13, 1884 and referred to the committee on public service and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 14, 1884 and concurred Total signatures: 0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: unsigned, to request his excellency the governor to recommend to the governors of the several states in the union the propriety of their respective magistrates submitting to their states' legislatures, a special message asking these bodies to adopt at once such a law as will give to all citizens of their respective commonwealths regardless of nativity race or color equal rights before the law, civil rights, Charles Sumner, Edwin G. Walker, Howard L. Smith Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1884, committee on public service - leave to withdraw 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.