DOI: 10.7910/dvn/q0g3v
title: Passed Acts; St. 1855, c.256, SC1/series 229, Petition of William C. Nell

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: School discrimination &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670510"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670510&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Boston, Massachusetts &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles W. Slack, Boston; committee on education &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;William C. Nell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ira Nell Gray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Louisa C. Gray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George A. Noyes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edmund Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles K. Whipple&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lloyd Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry I. Bowditch&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel F. Child&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Loring Moody&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wendell Phillips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Theodore Parker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amos Bronson Alcott&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Spooner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Austin Bearse&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert R. Crosby&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John S. Rock&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William C. Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Roberts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Joseph Prentiss&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Murray Spear&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert F. Wallcut&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel May&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Curtis C. Nichols&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lloyd Garrison Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John P. Coburn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Weeden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Louisa May Alcott&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abby May Alcott&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Harriet Hayden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lewis Parker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Noyes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Walter E. Lawton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Coffin Pitts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Effingham L. Capron&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cornelius Bramhall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles H. Sanborn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James M.W. Yerrinton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James B. Yerrinton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert R. Crosby&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edmund Quincy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Washington&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;W.W. Brown [William Wells Brown?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lemuel Burr&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Minot&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George W. Putnam&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Hoyt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-21 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on February 21, 1855 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 314 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent for concurrence &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 184 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 67 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Other male signatures: 24 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 39 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males], [males of color], [females of color], ["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: 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;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1855, c.256, passed April 28, 1855 &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;