EXPLANATION-Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in this bill is not enacted
and is intended to be omitted in the law.
FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 209
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR MOSLEY.
0060S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To repeal section 160.516, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the
history curriculum in public schools.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 160.516, RSMo, is repealed and two new 1
sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 2
160.516 and 170.342, to read as follows:3
160.516. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of 1
[section] sections 160.514 and 170.342, the state board of 2
education and the department of elementary and secondary 3
education shall not be authorized to mandate and are 4
expressly prohibited from mandatin g the curriculum, 5
textbooks, or other instructional materials to be used in 6
public schools. Each local school board shall be 7
responsible for the approval and adoption of curriculum used 8
by the school district. The provisions of this subsection 9
shall not apply to schools and instructional programs 10
administered by the state board of education and the 11
department of elementary and secondary education or to 12
school districts that are classified as unaccredited. 13
2. The state board of education and the department of 14
elementary and secondary education shall not require 15
districts to use any appendix to the common core state 16
standards. 17 SB 209 2
170.342. 1. The state board of education shall adopt 1
and require that the history curriculum t aught in the 2
seventh through twelfth grades include the following topics 3
of Native American history: 4
(1) A detailed history of indigenous Native American 5
society prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus, 6
including, but not limited to, the ini tial migrations of 7
peoples from Australia, Mongolia, and the Pacific Islands 8
into the Americas and the growth and development of various 9
indigenous Native American civilizations, nations, and 10
tribes; 11
(2) That Columbus did not discover America, di d not 12
travel farther west than the Caribbean islands, and did not 13
know that North and South America lay to the west of the 14
Caribbean islands; 15
(3) The murder, enslavement, and mutilation of 16
indigenous persons by Columbus, as well as Columbus's 17
stealing of gold and other property owned by such persons; 18
(4) That the three hundred thousand indigenous Native 19
Americans who resided on the island of Hispaniola at the 20
time of the arrival of Columbus were murdered, removed from 21
Hispaniola and enslaved in Spain, or died from contracting 22
European diseases, resulting in the total genocidal 23
extermination of the indigenous Native American population 24
of Hispaniola within one hundred years of the arrival of 25
Columbus, such that not a single descendant of the 26
indigenous Native Americans who resided in Hispaniola at the 27
time Columbus invaded the island is alive today; 28
(5) A map identifying the name and approximate 29
geographic boundaries of each Native American nation and 30
tribe located in the pres ent-day territory of the United 31
States at the time of the arrival of Columbus in the 32 SB 209 3
Americas, as well as the estimated population of each such 33
nation and tribe at such time; 34
(6) That approximately ninety percent of the 35
indigenous Native American population, approximately fifty - 36
five million people, died as a result of the holocaust 37
inflicted upon them by the European military invasion and 38
colonization of the Americas, including a comparison between 39
the number of indigenous Native Americans res iding in the 40
Americas at the time of the arrival of Columbus in the 41
Americas and the number of such persons currently residing 42
in the Americas; 43
(7) That approximately twelve million indigenous 44
Native Americans located in the present -day territory of the 45
United States died as a result of the holocaust inflicted 46
upon them upon the European military invasion and 47
colonization of the lands that became such territory; 48
(8) Specifically identify the various causes of the 49
deaths described in subd ivisions (6) and (7) of this 50
subsection, including, but not limited to, the number of 51
such deaths resulting from contagious diseases contracted 52
from Europeans and the number of such deaths resulting from 53
military action against indigenous Native Americ ans by the 54
European invaders and their descendants during their 55
colonization of the Americas; 56
(9) A map identifying the name and approximate 57
geographic boundaries of each Native American nation and 58
tribe located in the present -day territories of the states 59
of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North 60
Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee prior to the 61
forceful removal of such nations and tribes therefrom by the 62
United States Army due to the passage of the Indian Removal 63
Act of 1830; 64 SB 209 4
(10) That forty-six thousand indigenous Native 65
Americans of the Cherokee Nation were forcefully removed 66
from Alabama and Georgia and relocated to Oklahoma, or 67
"Indian Territory", as a result of the Indian Removal Act of 68
1830, and that appro ximately ten percent or four thousand 69
six hundred of such persons died in the "Trail of Tears" as 70
a result of being forced, by the United States Army, to walk 71
from Alabama and Georgia to Oklahoma; 72
(11) That twenty-five million acres of fertile, 73
lucrative farmland were given away to white, illegal, 74
European immigrants who settled in Alabama, Arkansas, 75
Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South 76
Carolina, and Tennessee when indigenous Native Americans 77
lost their homelands as a result of the passage of the 78
Indian Removal Act of 1830, and that the United States Army 79
forcefully removed those indigenous Native Americans from 80
their homelands and herded those indigenous Native Americans 81
into concentration camps in Oklahoma called reservati ons; 82
(12) The "Wounded Knee" massacre of indigenous Native 83
Americans and other such massacres of those indigenous 84
Native Americans by the United States Army; 85
(13) That two hundred and seventy million acres of 86
indigenous Native Americans' lan d was taken from them and 87
given to over one million white, illegal, European 88
immigrants as a result of the passage of the Homestead Act 89
of 1862 by the United States Congress; 90
(14) That, under the Homestead Act, each white, 91
illegal, European immig rant family was given one hundred and 92
sixty acres of indigenous Native Americans' farmland and 93
allowed to go for free to a land grant college or university 94
to learn agricultural techniques; 95 SB 209 5
(15) That the Homestead Act resulted in the forceful 96
removal by the United States Army of millions of indigenous 97
Native Americans from their homelands in the "Northwest 98
Territory" after which such persons were herded into 99
concentration camps called reservations; and 100
(16) Such other topics of indigenous Native American 101
history as shall fully detail and tell the history or story 102
of indigenous Native Americans and the dispossession of 103
their lands and lives as a result of the European military 104
invasion, illegal immigration, and colonization of the 105
Americas, and particularly by the United States. 106
2. The state board of education shall adopt and 107
require that the history curriculum taught in the seventh 108
through twelfth grades include the following topics of 109
African American history: 110
(1) A detailed history of Africa, including, but not 111
limited to, the birth of humanity in Africa, initial 112
migrations of Africans out of Africa and into all continents 113
and islands of the Earth, the development of black African 114
civilizations, including, but not l imited to, Egypt, Nubia, 115
Kush, Ethiopia, Mali, Ghana, Songhay, Benin, Kanem -Bornu, 116
and Great Zimbabwe; the effects of slavery and colonialism 117
upon African societies; African independence movements; and 118
modern-day Africa; 119
(2) Pre-Columbian contact between the indigenous 120
Native Americans and Africans, including contact, 121
visitation, interaction, and trade between Native Americans 122
with Egypt and Mali, as well as settlements of Egyptians and 123
Malians in both North and South America; 124
(3) The hypocrisy of the phrase "all men are created 125
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain 126
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and 127 SB 209 6
the Pursuit of Happiness" in the Declaration of 128
Independence, given the enslavement of mill ions of human 129
beings in the United States; 130
(4) Slavery provisions in the United States 131
Constitution; 132
(5) The distinction between lifetime chattel slavery 133
instituted in the Americas and old -world slavery; 134
(6) The economics of slavery; 135
(7) The following topics related to slavery in the 136
United States: 137
(a) Slave breeding; 138
(b) Buck breaking; 139
(c) The rape of slaves; 140
(d) The mutilation of slaves; 141
(e) The castration of slaves; 142
(f) The murder of slaves; 143
(g) The starvation of slaves; 144
(h) The poor clothing of slaves; 145
(i) Destroying slave families through the selling of 146
single members of slave families away from the family; 147
(j) Forcing slaves to work from sunup to sundown; 148
(k) The cruel and unusual punishment of slaves; 149
(l) The whipping of slaves; 150
(m) The shackling of slaves; 151
(n) A list of Presidents of the United States who 152
owned slaves, to wit, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, 153
James Madison, James Monr oe, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van 154
Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, 155
Zachary Taylor, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant; 156
(o) Slave revolts; 157
(p) The burning and branding of slaves; 158
(q) The Fugitive Slave Act; 159 SB 209 7
(r) The Underground Railroad; 160
(s) Prohibitions against teaching slaves how to read 161
and write; and 162
(t) Laws providing that conversion to Christianity did 163
not emancipate a slave; 164
(8) The participation of blacks in the Revolutionary 165
War and broken promises of freedom if they fought on the 166
side of the colonies; 167
(9) The participation of blacks in the Civil War; 168
(10) That as many as fifty million Africans lost their 169
lives during the four -hundred-year slave trade; 170
(11) The fact that the Emancipation Proclamation did 171
not free any slaves when issued by President Abraham Lincoln 172
due to the fact that Lincoln did not apply it to the four 173
slave states that did not secede from the Union, 174
specifically Missouri, Maryland, Delawar e, and Kentucky, nor 175
to the three slave states that seceded but were under Union 176
control at the time of the Emancipation Proclamation, 177
specifically Louisiana, Virginia, and Tennessee, and that 178
the Emancipation Proclamation could not be enforced in the 179
remaining eight slave states that made up the Confederacy 180
since such states were under the control of the Confederacy; 181
(12) That over one million Africans remained enslaved 182
in the United States on June 19, 1865, "Juneteenth", since 183
the Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to all slaves in 184
the United States; 185
(13) That the emancipation of all slaves in the United 186
States occurred on December 6, 1865, the date the Thirteenth 187
Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified 188
abolishing slavery in the United States; 189
(14) That the Thirteenth Amendment allowed one to be 190
enslaved for conviction of crime, which led to the former 191 SB 209 8
Confederate slave states' passage of the "Black Codes", 192
which allowed for conviction of black people f or trumped-up 193
crimes such as loitering and vagrancy, the imprisonment of 194
black people for such crimes, and the government leasing of 195
those black people to work, without pay, like slaves to 196
white-owned businesses, farmers, and manufacturers; 197
(15) The race massacres throughout the United States 198
following the Civil War, and particularly the bombing and 199
destruction of the black owned and occupied Rosewood 200
business and residential district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and 201
East St. Louis, Illinois; 202
(16) The violent overthrow of elected black 203
governmental officials of Wilmington, North Carolina, by a 204
white seditionist mob with no response by the state or 205
federal governments; 206
(17) Black reconstruction of the South; 207
(18) The compromise endin g reconstruction; 208
(19) Buffalo Soldiers; 209
(20) The participation of blacks in the Spanish - 210
American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and 211
the Vietnam War; 212
(21) Discrimination against black veterans; 213
(22) Discrimination against black West Point cadets; 214
(23) Discrimination against black soldiers and attacks 215
against black soldiers coming home from wars; 216
(24) The forced retirement of the highest -ranking 217
black Army officer, Colonel Charles Young, in order to av oid 218
promoting him as the first black Brigadier General solely 219
because he was black; 220
(25) Black inventions and inability of black inventors 221
to get loans or investments to develop their inventions; 222 SB 209 9
(26) President Woodrow Wilson's aid to the re vival of 223
the Ku Klux Klan and Wilson's ordering segregation of 224
governmental facilities and employees during his term of 225
office between 1913 and 1921; 226
(27) Laws mandating discrimination and segregation on 227
the basis of race; 228
(28) The real estate practices of redlining and 229
restrictive covenants; 230
(29) Prohibitions against black athletes in 231
professional and amateur sports; 232
(30) Laws prohibiting interracial marriages; 233
(31) President Harry Truman's order to integrate the 234
military; 235
(32) The Voting Rights Act, Public Accommodations Act, 236
Fair Housing Act, Hate Crimes Act, and Equal Employment 237
Opportunity Act; 238
(33) The following Supreme Court cases: Dred Scott v. 239
Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Educati on of 240
Topeka, Shelley v. Kraemer, and Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. 241
Canada; 242
(34) Significant African Americans in history; 243
(35) President Dwight Eisenhower's order for American 244
troops to protect black students integrating public schools; 245
(36) The civil rights movement; 246
(37) The counter intelligence program, "COINTELPRO", 247
the Federal Bureau of Investigation's conspiracy against 248
black civil rights leaders and groups; 249
(38) The freedom riders; 250
(39) The lynching of over four thousand African 251
Americans between 1877 and 1950; 252
(40) The black lives matter movement, and the police 253
murders of unarmed black people; 254 SB 209 10
(41) The Tuskegee experiment on black men by failing 255
to treat black men with syphilis to determine the e ffects of 256
untreated syphilis upon human beings; 257
(42) Painful and crippling gynecological experiments 258
on black women; 259
(43) Historically black colleges and universities; and 260
(44) Such other African American history as shall 261
fully detail and tell the history or story of Africans in 262
Africa, both before and after the European military invasion 263
and colonization of Africa and the enslavement of Africans, 264
including the European invaders and colonizers' violent 265
dispossession of Africans from their homelands, and of gold, 266
diamonds, and other minerals and natural resources; the 267
Europeans' deprivation of Africans of their human rights 268
both in the United States and in Africa; the African lives 269
and bodies lost as a result of the European invas ion and 270
colonization of the Americas and Africa; and African 271
Americans' history in the United States. 272