Passed Acts; St. 1949, c.726, SC1/series 229, Petition of Edward L. Schoenberg

Petition subject: Racial discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455187 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Dorchester Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Joseph A. Melley, Suffolk; committee on education Selected signatures:Edward L. Schoenberg Actions taken on dates: 1949-02-01,1949-02-01 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 1, 1949 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 1, 1949 and concurred Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizen Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: to provide for fair educational practices and equality of educational opportunity and to eliminate and prevent discrimination in education because of race, religion, color or national origin, includes address Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1949, c.726, passed August 22, 1949 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.