House Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 3139, SC1/series 230, Petition of Jonas W. Clark

Petition subject: School discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029724 Date of creation: 1851-02 Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William Schouler, Boston; committee on education Selected signatures:Jonas W. ClarkEmiliano F.B. MundrucuJeremiah HarveyHenry WeedenThomas DaltonWilliam LawsonBenjamin P. BassettCharles RoseWilliam BrownJohn WrightJohn P. CoburnJames JohnsonSamuel WilsonJacob SampsonWilliam James WatkinsOttawa WestJeremiah StewartJohn H. SterlingJohn W.B. SmithWilliam B. RobinsonRobert JohnsonPatrick H. AllenHenry RandolphPeter M. HowardThomas CummingsJoseph N. ButlerThomas G. WilliamsPeter F. GillGeorge WashingtonLewis HaydenW.H. LoganLeonard A. GrimesLemuel Burr Actions taken on dates: 1851-03-08,1851-03-10 Legislative action: Received in the House on March 8, 1851 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 10, 1851 and concurred Total signatures: 42 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 42 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: constituting a portion of the citizens of Boston, being deprived of the advantages of Common School Privileges, solely on account of complexion, [males of color], [\"legal voters\"], [\"colored men and their families\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Includes addresses; men signed for families, representing 186 peoples Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1851, Docket 3139 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.