DOI: 10.7910/dvn/11glq3
title: Passed Acts; St. 1946, c.368, SC1/series 229, Petition of Louis Lobel

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Racial discrimination &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25500566"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25500566&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Massachusetts &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Louis Lobel, Boston; committee on state administration &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Louis Lobel&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter J. Jordan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Richard J. Allen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles D. Driscoll&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter M. Leavitt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Malcolm Strong Nichols&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Donald W. Moreland&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mrs. Lucius E. Thayer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William B. Spofford&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;D. Augus Cameron&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert L. Zoerheide&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;W.M. Gibson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Julian D. Steele&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Filomena Cogliano&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John S. Barreau&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Marguerite Oldo Carson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Albert B. Cleage Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Frates&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1946-01-15,1946-01-16 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on January 15, 1946 and referred to the committee on state administration and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 16, 1946 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 20 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 17 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 2 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 1 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, rep. [representatives], New England Division American Jewish Congress president, Social Work Action Committee of Boston president, Mass. Conference of Social Work president, Interracial Committee of Boston Y.W.C.A., Church League for Industrial Democracy, Mass. Citizens Political Action Committee, Unitarian Student Action Committee, National Assoc. for the Advancement of Colored People Worcester Branch, National Assoc. for the Advancement of Colored People Boston Branch, Italian-American War Veterans, Committee for a Massachusetts Fair Employment Practice Law, President New Bedford Branch The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, President National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Springfield Massachusetts branch, Rev. [Reverend], chairman FEPC Committee of NAACP, Portuguese American Civic League of Massachusetts, [females of color], [males of color], ["the Social Work Action Committee of Boston"], ["others"] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Prayer format was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing"&gt;printed&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript"&gt;manuscript&lt;/a&gt;: Printed &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Signatory column format: not column separated &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: NAACP, fair employment practice law, establishment of a commission to be known as the state fair employment practice commission, includes addresses, towns next to names including Boston, Brookline, Winchester, Worcester, East Boston, Belmont, Springfield, New Bedford, [many additional documents in folder] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1946, c.368, passed May 23, 1946 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;