Passed Acts; St. 1920, c.376, SC1/series 229, Petition of John S.R. Bourne

<p>Petition subject: Racial discrimination </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455122">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455122</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Julius Meyers, Cambridge; committee on labor </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>John S.R. Bourne</li><li>Albert G. Wolff</li><li>Frank Gaston Hill</li><li>Malcoln C. Banks</li><li>Walter O. Taylor</li><li>John Arthur Gaines</li><li>William Monroe Trotter</li><li>William L. Reed</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1920-01-21,1920-01-27 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 21, 1920 and referred to the committee on labor and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 27, 1920 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 13 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 13 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, chairman of the special civic work committee of the St. Mark Literary Union of 1046 Tremont St., Boston, representing several hundreds of citizens, [males 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>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: for equal opportunity to all citizens for employment by street railway companies, nationality, race, color, railroads, addresses and towns next to names including Boston, Everett, Roxbury </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1920, c.376, passed April 30, 1920 </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>