Senate Unpassed Legislation 1884, committee on public service - leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Edwin G. Walker

Petition subject: Racial Discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950606 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John F. Andrew, Suffolk; committee on federal relations Selected signatures:Edwin G. WalkerHoward L. Smith Actions taken on dates: 1884-02-13,1884-02-14 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 13, 1884 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 14, 1884 and concurred Total signatures: 2 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, president, secretary, Sumner National Independent League, in behalf of the colored citizens of Mass., [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: to request Governor George D. Robinson to recommend to the governors of the several states in the Union, the propriety of the respective magistrates submitting to their states' legislatures, a special message asking those bodies to adopt at once, such a law as will give to all citizens of their commonwealths, regardless of their nativity race or color, equal rights before the law, bondage, serfs, ignorance, degraded, respect, relief, joint resolution, a Civil Rights Law, 13th amendment, 14th amendment, 15th amendment, constitution, supreme court, reconstruction, Charles Sumner, ["...there exists today a lack of respect for your petitioners that makes every moment of their being an existence of deep depression, yea, of anguish, not comprehended by those who are not its subject..."] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1884, committee on public service - leave to withdraw 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.