House Unpassed Legislation 1845, Docket 1592, SC1/series 230, Petition of Eunice F. Ross

<p>Petition subject: School discrimination </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005499">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005499</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: [Nantucket?] </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Eunice F. Ross</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1845-02-27 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 27, 1845 and referred to the committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: undersigned, [females of color] </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>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: To aid the petition of Edward Pompey, examination, 1840, school committee, qualified, admission, high school at Nantucket, refused admittance by a vote of the town, on account of her color </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1845, Docket 1592 </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>