Passed Acts; St. 1946, c.368, SC1/series 229, Petition of Roy F. Williams

<p>Petition subject: Racial discrimination </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455149">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455149</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Brookline </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Willard A. Ormsbee, Bristol; committee on state administration </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Roy F. Williams</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1946-01-16,1946-01-17 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 16, 1946 and referred to the committee on state administration and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 17, 1946 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizen, executive V.P. Associated Industries of Mass, ["executive vice president, Associated Industries of Massachusetts"] </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: to prohibit discrimination in employment because of race, color, religious creed, national origin or ancestry, [many additional documents in folder] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1946, c.368, passed May 23, 1946 </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>