Passed Acts; St. 1957, c.426, SC1/series 229, Petition of Fred Lamson

<p>Petition subject: Racial discrimination </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25500607">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25500607</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Fred Lamson, Middlesex; committee on mercantile affairs </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Fred Lamson</li><li>John E. Powers</li><li>John F. Thompson</li><li>Frank S. Giles Jr.</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1957-01-07,1957-01-07 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 7, 1957 and referred to the committee on mercantile affairs and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 7, 1957 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 4 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 4 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizen, rep. [representative], senator, ["members of the House of Representatives"] </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 because of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry in publicly assisted housing accommodations, towns next to names including Ludlow, Methuen, Suffolk, Middlesex </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1957, c.426, passed June 7, 1957 </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>