1920 Algerian Political Rights Petition

Algerian nationalist document (1920) April 2022 1920 Algerian Political Rights Petition *Khalid ibn Hashim Mohamed Seghir Boushaki Pétition n°30, Pétition du 18 juillet 1920, Pétition des droits politiques algériens de 1920 French Algeria French * Indigénat Political rights Petition 18 July 1920 French Senate yes The 1920 Algerian Political Rights Petition was the first petition to claim the political rights of Algerians within French Algeria following the 1919 Algerian municipal elections.https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6466914t/f14.image.r=Boushaki Journal officiel de la République française. Débats parlementaires. Sénat : compte rendu in-extenso 19 May 1921 Gallica 21 May 2024 15 August 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230815101817/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6466914t/f14.image.r=Boushaki livehttps://books.google.com/books?id=7UjoDLhXLN8C&q=Boushaki Annales du Sénat: Débats parlementaires France Assemblée nationale (1871-1942) Sénat 12 April 1922 Imprimerie des Journaux officiels Google Books 21 May 2024 21 May 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240521154902/https://books.google.com/books?id=7UjoDLhXLN8C&q=Boushaki#v=snippet&q=Boushaki&f=false live History thumb|Jonnart Law The participation of tens of thousands of Algerian soldiers in the battles of the First World War in France and their decisive intervention in the victory against the Imperial German Army earned them rewards after their return to Algeria.https://www.elwatan.com/archives/histoire-archives/la-requete-de-lemir-khaled-au-president-wilson-23-06-2009 La requête de l'Emir Khaled au président Wilson | El Watan www.elwatan.com June 2023 InternetArchiveBot yes It is in that way that the Jonnart Law allowed veterans and disabled natives to accede to functions in the colonial administration and to obtain real estate in the cities and in the countryside as a sign of assimilation within the framework of the Indigénat code.https://www.miages-djebels.org/spip.php?article282 Lettre de l'Émir Khaled à Woodrow Wilson, Président des États-Unis d'Amérique (mai 1919) - Miages-Djebels www.miages-djebels.org 11 April 2022 1 April 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230401171508/http://www.miages-djebels.org/spip.php?article282 live The provisions that followed the endorsement of the law on 4 February 1919 made it possible to produce legal texts specifying the trades allowed to native Algerians with consequent restrictions in the administrative professional hierarchy.Ageron Charles-Robert 12 April 1980 La petition de l'Emir Khaled au president Wilson (mai 1919) https://www.projecttopics.org/journals/204162-la-petition-de-lemir-khaled-au-president-wilson-mai-1919.html Revue d'histoire maghrébine 7 19–20 0330-8987 772687009 www.projecttopics.orgFebruary 2024 InternetArchiveBot yes However, the municipal elections of 1919 enabled the political representation of the natives to expand in the municipalities as of right, thus producing a new need for political and union freedoms.https://www.persee.fr/doc/remmm_0035-1474_1971_num_9_1_1099 L'émir Khaled (1875-1936) vu par Ibn Badis (1889-1940). Ali Merad 12 April 1971 Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée 9 1 21–35 www.persee.fr 10.3406/remmm.1971.1099 11 April 2022 15 August 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230815102601/https://www.persee.fr/doc/remmm_0035-1474_1971_num_9_1_1099 live Indeed, the general councilor Khalid ibn Hashim in Algiers, as well as the municipal councilor Mohamed Seghir Boushaki as representative of the elected natives, began to ferment and foment a protest action through French institutions ranging from communes to the French Senate, and even so far as writing to US President Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924).https://www.cairn.info/genese-de-l-algerie-algerienne--9789961966273-page-165.htm La pétition de l’Émir Khaledau Président Wilson (mai 1919) Charles-Robert Ageron Dans Genèse de l'Algérie algérienne fr Genesis of Algerian Algeria 2005 165–178 978-9961-9662-7-3 11 April 2022 16 August 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230816105148/https://www.cairn.info/genese-de-l-algerie-algerienne--9789961966273-page-165.htm live Petition thumb|Emir Khaled (1875–1936) The demand for the political rights of indigenous Algerians after the First World War was concretized by the writing of an official petition dated 18 July 1920 to the French Senate.https://journals.openedition.org/insaniyat/6387 La revendication des libertés publiquesdans le discours politique du nationalisme algérien et de l'anticolonialisme français(1919-1954) Saddek Benkada 30 December 2004 Insaniyat / إنسانيات. Revue algérienne d'anthropologie et de sciences sociales 25–26 179–199 journals.openedition.org 10.4000/insaniyat.6387 193875037 free 11 April 2022 15 August 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230815102740/https://journals.openedition.org/insaniyat/6387 live subscription This protest document was inspired by the Emir Khaled and made concrete by the many municipal councilors led and represented by Mohamed Seghir Boushaki elected in the full-service municipality of Thénia (formerly Ménerville). The secretariat of the Senate registered this document under the name of "Petition N°30" having for object the respectful protest of the Algerian indigenous municipal councilors before the Senate against the new provisions of the code of the Indigénat. Indeed, a bill had been tabled in the Upper House of Parliament by the services of the French Government relating to the modification of the regulations of the regime of the native status in Algeria and the accession of the natives of Algeria to political rights.https://www.africabib.org/rec.php?RID=19201854X La petition de l'Emir Khaled au president Wilson (mai 1919) Charles-Robert Ageron 12 April 1980 Revue d'histoire maghrébine 7 19–20 199–209 www.africabib.org 11 April 2022 15 August 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230815102737/https://www.africabib.org/rec.php?RID=19201854X live Senate debate It was Senator Charles Cadilhon (1876–1940) who was mandated and appointed by the French Senate to report the discussions and debates of other senators on its content claims, and this during the session of May 19, 1921.https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6517918n Répertoire administratif des maires et des conseillers municipaux 12 September 1920 Gallica 21 May 2024 15 August 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230815104500/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6517918n livehttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6411655s Impressions : projets, propositions, rapports... / Sénat France Sénat (1875-1942) Auteur du texte 22 December 1922 Gallica 21 May 2024 15 August 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230815104445/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6411655s live This senator from the Landes then noted in his report that the bill modifying the code of the Indigénat to which the petition related had indeed been adopted and endorsed by the two French parliamentary assemblies.https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6383536d Impressions : projets, propositions, rapports... / Sénat France Sénat (1875-1942) Auteur du texte 7 July 1922 Gallica 21 May 2024 15 August 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230815104455/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6383536d live Indeed, the government project had become the law of 4 August 1920 (fr Loi du 4 août 1920), after its majority adoption by the deputies and senators, and this law was then published after its definitive promulgation in the fr Journal officiel de la République française on 6 August 1920, starting on page 11287.https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k63865170/f1371.image.r=loi+4+aout+1920+indigenat.zoom Pandectes françaises périodiques : Recueil mensuel de jurisprudence et de législation... | 1922 fr Gallica 2013-10-22 2022-04-29 15 August 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230815104459/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k63865170/f1371.image.r=loi+4+aout+1920+indigenat.zoom live At the conclusion of the senatorial debate on "Petition No. 30", the committee, chaired by the rapporteur Charles Cadilhon, finally pronounced negatively on the agenda concerning the extended political rights for the natives, and the refusal and denial was entered in the registers of the Senate.https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5423371j Supplément à tous les codes : bulletin des lois usuelles, décrets, arrêtés, circulaires, etc. se référant et s'adaptant à tous les codes : recueil mensuel / fondé par Me A. Weber,... ; publié par M. Paul Roy,... 12 November 1920 Gallica 21 May 2024 15 August 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230815102939/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5423371j live See also 1919 Algerian municipal elections Khalid ibn Hashim (1875–1936) Mohamed Seghir Boushaki (1869–1959) Bibliography 20 May 1921 Pétitions Journal officiel de la République française. Sénat: Séance du 18 juillet 1920. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6466914t/f14.image.r=Boushaki French 73 Paris Quai Voltaire 1172 Citation: p. 1170 1922 Pétitions Annales du Sénat: Débats parlementaires https://books.google.com/books?id=7UjoDLhXLN8C&q=Boushaki French 94, Partie 2 Paris Imprimerie des Journaux officiels 1334 Citation: p. 1334 References 2 Law Politics Algeria France Category:Petitions Category:Algerian nationalism Category:Politics of French Algeria Category:1920 documents Category:1920 in law Category:July 1920 in Africa Category:1920 in Algeria Category:20th century in Algeria Category:History of human rights Category:Human rights in Algeria Category:Human rights instruments Category:Memory of the World Register in Algeria Category:Political charters Category:Popular sovereignty Category:Background and causes of the Algerian War Category:1920s in Algeria