House Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 3139, SC1/series 230, Petition of Dr. Walter Channing

Petition subject: School discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029725 Date of creation: 1850-06 Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William Schouler, Boston; committee on education Selected signatures:Dr. Walter ChanningEdmund JacksonWilliam JacksonCharles H. CanfieldFrancis JacksonCharles PalmerWendell PhillipsEllis Gray LoringJoseph SouthwickCharles SumnerCharles K. WhippleWalter ChanningWilliam F. ChanningFranklin RandGeorge W. LightGeorge C. RandLeonard JacksonRobert F. WallcutWilliam Lloyd GarrisonWilliam C. BrownAndrew CushingJesse PeckFrancis George ShawEdmund QuincyTheodore ParkerSamuel PhilbrickWilliam I. BowditchSamuel GilmoreGeorge GilmoreJames B. YerrintonJohn G. PalfreyGeorge W. BosworthSamuel P. CheeverJames N. BuffumCaleb EastonRobert Roberts 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: 137 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 137 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Includes occupations and towns next to names including Boston, Malden, Roxbury, Dedham, Brookline, Dorchester, Newton, Salem, Stoughton, Hanover, Warren, Braintree, Charlestown, Bridgewater, Plympton, Kingston, Hanson, Abington, East Bridgewater, South Hingham, Dennis, Harwich, Plymouth, Raynham, Holliston, Cambridge, Cambridgeport, Lynn, Lowell, North Bridgewater; signature numbers different from front of petition 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.