Passed Acts; Spec. St. 1915, c.348, SC1/series 229, Petition of Lewis R. Sullivan

Petition subject: Racial discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455163 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Lewis R. Sullivan, Boston; committee on rules; joint committee on the judiciary Selected signatures:Lewis R. Sullivan Actions taken on dates: 1915-04-20,1915-04-22,1915-04-22 Legislative action: Received in the House on April 20, 1915 and motion to suspend the 12th joint rule referred to the committee on rules and 12th joint rule suspended in the House on April 22, 1915 and referred to the joint committee on the judiciary and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on April 22, 1915 and concurred Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, suspended, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: public entertainments that are immoral or indecent or that tend to excite racial or religious prejudice Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Spec. St. 1915, c.348, passed May 21, 1915 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.