House Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 2556, SC1/series 230, Petition of Benjamin F. Roberts

Petition subject: School discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005516 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Henry Wilson, Natick; committee on the judiciary Selected signatures:Benjamin F. Roberts Actions taken on dates: 1850-04-12 Legislative action: Received in the House on April 12, 1850 and referred to the committee on the judiciary Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, referred Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizen, by birth a Bostonian, grandson of one the soldiers of the Revolution, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: information relative to his legal right as a citizen, to common school privileges, judges of the supreme court, school committee of Boston, two sons and three daughters, on account of not wearing a skin quite as pale as the children of their neighbors, that the power to impose upon the weak may be taken from those agents Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1850, Docket 2556 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.