DOI: 10.7910/dvn/0yid9
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1859, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 230, Petition of John A. Andrew

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Discrimination and places of public amusement &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11018086"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11018086&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1859-01-25 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Boston &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Martin Brimmer, Boston; committee on the judiciary &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;John A. Andrew&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William L. Burt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George H. Howe&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Williams Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William H. Allen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James P. Rice&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John H. Greene&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George E. Davenport&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas T. Cushing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George P. Clapp&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Chapman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles N. Barnard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Brigham&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Tompkins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Babcock&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simpson H. Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John B. Bailey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Coffin Pitts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Emiliano E.F.B. Mundrucu&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Marcy L. Haves&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Washington Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jonas W. Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin F. Roberts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Bean&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William C. Nell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lloyd Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William B. Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel May Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William B. Earle&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sylvester C. Fay&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert F. Wallcut&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Spear&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Otis Clapp&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1859-01-25 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on January 25, 1859 and referred to the committee on the judiciary &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 275 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 275 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: undersigned, [males 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;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: licensed, licenses, exhibit, public show, theatrical exhibition, public amusement, exclusion, race, opinion, color &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1859, leave to withdraw &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;