Senate Unpassed Legislation 1945, H 2080 rejected, SC1/series 231, Petition of Charles I. Taylor

<p>Petition subject: Racial Discrimination </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950610">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950610</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles I. Taylor, Suffolk; Edward M. Rowe, Suffolk; committee on state administration </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Charles I. Taylor</li><li>Edward M. Rowe</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1945-01-18,1945-01-22 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on Janaury 18, 1945 and referred to the committee on state administration and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 22, 1945 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: citizen, senator </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: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: to prohibit and penalize discriminatory employment practices based upon race, color, creed, national origin or ancestry and to create a state commission against discrimination and to prescribe its powers and duties </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1945, H 2080 rejected </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>