Petition subject: Racial discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455108 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Katharine D. Kane, Boston; committee on urban affairs Selected signatures:Massachusetts Committee on Discrimination in HousingKatharine D. KaneMartin A. Linsky Actions taken on dates: 1968-01-03,1968-01-04,1968-03-27 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 3, 1968 and referred to the committee on urban affairs and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 4, 1968 and concurred and received in the House on March 27, 1968 and recommitted Total signatures: 7 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred, received, recommitted Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female signatures: 1 Unidentified signatures: 5 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Massachusetts Committee on Discrimination in Housing, Massachusetts Chapter Americans for Democratic Action, Massachusetts Federation for Fair Housing and Equal Rights, American Friends Service Committee, United Church of Christ, [females], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: amendment of the housing authority law, includes addresses, towns next to names including Boston, West Concord, Roxbury, Norfolk county Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1968, c.249, passed May 8, 1968 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.