Passed Acts; St. 1961, c.181, SC1/series 229, Petition of Edward J. McCormack Jr.

<p>Petition subject: Racial discrimination </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455087">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455087</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John J. Cavanaugh, Holyoke; committee on state administration </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Edward J. McCormack Jr.</li><li>John J. Cavanaugh</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1961-01-05,1961-01-09 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 5, 1961 and referred to the committee on state administration and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 9, 1961 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 2 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, rep. [representative] </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: discrimination against persons because of race, creed, color or national origin by real estate brokers or agents, towns next to names including Holyoke </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1961, c.181, passed March 6, 1961 </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>