Passed Resolves; Resolves 1906, c.65, SC1/series 228, Petition of James W. Gross

<p>Petition subject: Racial discrimination </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25500524">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25500524</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: J. Bernard Ferber, Boston </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>James W. Gross</li><li>Chris Branum</li><li>Ruth E. Woods</li><li>W.D. Johnson</li><li>Thomas P. Taylor</li><li>Mary M. Parrish</li><li>Nadine Wright</li><li>Joseph Lee</li><li>Jennie C. Joshua</li><li>Mary Bond</li><li>David W. Chesnut</li><li>Theresa Stubbs</li><li>Hattie Jewell</li><li>Ellen Rahn</li><li>Charles H. Seales</li><li>Marka Lee</li><li>Joshua A. Rawford</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1906-04-06 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on April 6, 1906 and placed on file </p> <p>Total signatures: 49 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, placed on file </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 12 </p> <p>Female signatures: 19 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 18 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [males of color], [females of color], ["others"] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Printed </p> <p>Signatory column format: not column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, Virginia, includes addresses, towns next to names including Cambridge, West Somerville, Boston, Roxbury, Hyde Park, Dedham, Jamestown Rhode Island </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1906, c.65, passed May 7, 1906 </p> <p>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.</p>