Missouri 2025 Regular Session

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2	2	EXPLANATION-Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in this bill is not enacted
3	3	and is intended to be omitted in the law.
4	4	FIRST REGULAR SESSION
5	5	SENATE BILL NO. 209
6	6	103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
7	7	INTRODUCED BY SENATOR MOSLEY.
8	8	0060S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
9	9	AN ACT
10	10	To repeal section 160.516, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the
11	11	history curriculum in public schools.
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13	13	Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
14	14	Section A. Section 160.516, RSMo, is repealed and two new 1
15	15	sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 2
16	16	160.516 and 170.342, to read as follows:3
17	17	160.516. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of 1
18	18	[section] sections 160.514 and 170.342, the state board of 2
19	19	education and the department of elementary and secondary 3
20	20	education shall not be authorized to mandate and are 4
21	21	expressly prohibited from mandatin g the curriculum, 5
22	22	textbooks, or other instructional materials to be used in 6
23	23	public schools. Each local school board shall be 7
24	24	responsible for the approval and adoption of curriculum used 8
25	25	by the school district. The provisions of this subsection 9
26	26	shall not apply to schools and instructional programs 10
27	27	administered by the state board of education and the 11
28	28	department of elementary and secondary education or to 12
29	29	school districts that are classified as unaccredited. 13
30	30	2. The state board of education and the department of 14
31	31	elementary and secondary education shall not require 15
32	32	districts to use any appendix to the common core state 16
33	33	standards. 17 SB 209 2
34	34	170.342. 1. The state board of education shall adopt 1
35	35	and require that the history curriculum t aught in the 2
36	36	seventh through twelfth grades include the following topics 3
37	37	of Native American history: 4
38	38	(1) A detailed history of indigenous Native American 5
39	39	society prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus, 6
40	40	including, but not limited to, the ini tial migrations of 7
41	41	peoples from Australia, Mongolia, and the Pacific Islands 8
42	42	into the Americas and the growth and development of various 9
43	43	indigenous Native American civilizations, nations, and 10
44	44	tribes; 11
45	45	(2) That Columbus did not discover America, di d not 12
46	46	travel farther west than the Caribbean islands, and did not 13
47	47	know that North and South America lay to the west of the 14
48	48	Caribbean islands; 15
49	49	(3) The murder, enslavement, and mutilation of 16
50	50	indigenous persons by Columbus, as well as Columbus's 17
51	51	stealing of gold and other property owned by such persons; 18
52	52	(4) That the three hundred thousand indigenous Native 19
53	53	Americans who resided on the island of Hispaniola at the 20
54	54	time of the arrival of Columbus were murdered, removed from 21
55	55	Hispaniola and enslaved in Spain, or died from contracting 22
56	56	European diseases, resulting in the total genocidal 23
57	57	extermination of the indigenous Native American population 24
58	58	of Hispaniola within one hundred years of the arrival of 25
59	59	Columbus, such that not a single descendant of the 26
60	60	indigenous Native Americans who resided in Hispaniola at the 27
61	61	time Columbus invaded the island is alive today; 28
62	62	(5) A map identifying the name and approximate 29
63	63	geographic boundaries of each Native American nation and 30
64	64	tribe located in the pres ent-day territory of the United 31
65	65	States at the time of the arrival of Columbus in the 32 SB 209 3
66	66	Americas, as well as the estimated population of each such 33
67	67	nation and tribe at such time; 34
68	68	(6) That approximately ninety percent of the 35
69	69	indigenous Native American population, approximately fifty - 36
70	70	five million people, died as a result of the holocaust 37
71	71	inflicted upon them by the European military invasion and 38
72	72	colonization of the Americas, including a comparison between 39
73	73	the number of indigenous Native Americans res iding in the 40
74	74	Americas at the time of the arrival of Columbus in the 41
75	75	Americas and the number of such persons currently residing 42
76	76	in the Americas; 43
77	77	(7) That approximately twelve million indigenous 44
78	78	Native Americans located in the present -day territory of the 45
79	79	United States died as a result of the holocaust inflicted 46
80	80	upon them upon the European military invasion and 47
81	81	colonization of the lands that became such territory; 48
82	82	(8) Specifically identify the various causes of the 49
83	83	deaths described in subd ivisions (6) and (7) of this 50
84	84	subsection, including, but not limited to, the number of 51
85	85	such deaths resulting from contagious diseases contracted 52
86	86	from Europeans and the number of such deaths resulting from 53
87	87	military action against indigenous Native Americ ans by the 54
88	88	European invaders and their descendants during their 55
89	89	colonization of the Americas; 56
90	90	(9) A map identifying the name and approximate 57
91	91	geographic boundaries of each Native American nation and 58
92	92	tribe located in the present -day territories of the states 59
93	93	of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North 60
94	94	Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee prior to the 61
95	95	forceful removal of such nations and tribes therefrom by the 62
96	96	United States Army due to the passage of the Indian Removal 63
97	97	Act of 1830; 64 SB 209 4
98	98	(10) That forty-six thousand indigenous Native 65
99	99	Americans of the Cherokee Nation were forcefully removed 66
100	100	from Alabama and Georgia and relocated to Oklahoma, or 67
101	101	"Indian Territory", as a result of the Indian Removal Act of 68
102	102	1830, and that appro ximately ten percent or four thousand 69
103	103	six hundred of such persons died in the "Trail of Tears" as 70
104	104	a result of being forced, by the United States Army, to walk 71
105	105	from Alabama and Georgia to Oklahoma; 72
106	106	(11) That twenty-five million acres of fertile, 73
107	107	lucrative farmland were given away to white, illegal, 74
108	108	European immigrants who settled in Alabama, Arkansas, 75
109	109	Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South 76
110	110	Carolina, and Tennessee when indigenous Native Americans 77
111	111	lost their homelands as a result of the passage of the 78
112	112	Indian Removal Act of 1830, and that the United States Army 79
113	113	forcefully removed those indigenous Native Americans from 80
114	114	their homelands and herded those indigenous Native Americans 81
115	115	into concentration camps in Oklahoma called reservati ons; 82
116	116	(12) The "Wounded Knee" massacre of indigenous Native 83
117	117	Americans and other such massacres of those indigenous 84
118	118	Native Americans by the United States Army; 85
119	119	(13) That two hundred and seventy million acres of 86
120	120	indigenous Native Americans' lan d was taken from them and 87
121	121	given to over one million white, illegal, European 88
122	122	immigrants as a result of the passage of the Homestead Act 89
123	123	of 1862 by the United States Congress; 90
124	124	(14) That, under the Homestead Act, each white, 91
125	125	illegal, European immig rant family was given one hundred and 92
126	126	sixty acres of indigenous Native Americans' farmland and 93
127	127	allowed to go for free to a land grant college or university 94
128	128	to learn agricultural techniques; 95 SB 209 5
129	129	(15) That the Homestead Act resulted in the forceful 96
130	130	removal by the United States Army of millions of indigenous 97
131	131	Native Americans from their homelands in the "Northwest 98
132	132	Territory" after which such persons were herded into 99
133	133	concentration camps called reservations; and 100
134	134	(16) Such other topics of indigenous Native American 101
135	135	history as shall fully detail and tell the history or story 102
136	136	of indigenous Native Americans and the dispossession of 103
137	137	their lands and lives as a result of the European military 104
138	138	invasion, illegal immigration, and colonization of the 105
139	139	Americas, and particularly by the United States. 106
140	140	2. The state board of education shall adopt and 107
141	141	require that the history curriculum taught in the seventh 108
142	142	through twelfth grades include the following topics of 109
143	143	African American history: 110
144	144	(1) A detailed history of Africa, including, but not 111
145	145	limited to, the birth of humanity in Africa, initial 112
146	146	migrations of Africans out of Africa and into all continents 113
147	147	and islands of the Earth, the development of black African 114
148	148	civilizations, including, but not l imited to, Egypt, Nubia, 115
149	149	Kush, Ethiopia, Mali, Ghana, Songhay, Benin, Kanem -Bornu, 116
150	150	and Great Zimbabwe; the effects of slavery and colonialism 117
151	151	upon African societies; African independence movements; and 118
152	152	modern-day Africa; 119
153	153	(2) Pre-Columbian contact between the indigenous 120
154	154	Native Americans and Africans, including contact, 121
155	155	visitation, interaction, and trade between Native Americans 122
156	156	with Egypt and Mali, as well as settlements of Egyptians and 123
157	157	Malians in both North and South America; 124
158	158	(3) The hypocrisy of the phrase "all men are created 125
159	159	equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain 126
160	160	unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and 127 SB 209 6
161	161	the Pursuit of Happiness" in the Declaration of 128
162	162	Independence, given the enslavement of mill ions of human 129
163	163	beings in the United States; 130
164	164	(4) Slavery provisions in the United States 131
165	165	Constitution; 132
166	166	(5) The distinction between lifetime chattel slavery 133
167	167	instituted in the Americas and old -world slavery; 134
168	168	(6) The economics of slavery; 135
169	169	(7) The following topics related to slavery in the 136
170	170	United States: 137
171	171	(a) Slave breeding; 138
172	172	(b) Buck breaking; 139
173	173	(c) The rape of slaves; 140
174	174	(d) The mutilation of slaves; 141
175	175	(e) The castration of slaves; 142
176	176	(f) The murder of slaves; 143
177	177	(g) The starvation of slaves; 144
178	178	(h) The poor clothing of slaves; 145
179	179	(i) Destroying slave families through the selling of 146
180	180	single members of slave families away from the family; 147
181	181	(j) Forcing slaves to work from sunup to sundown; 148
182	182	(k) The cruel and unusual punishment of slaves; 149
183	183	(l) The whipping of slaves; 150
184	184	(m) The shackling of slaves; 151
185	185	(n) A list of Presidents of the United States who 152
186	186	owned slaves, to wit, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, 153
187	187	James Madison, James Monr oe, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van 154
188	188	Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, 155
189	189	Zachary Taylor, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant; 156
190	190	(o) Slave revolts; 157
191	191	(p) The burning and branding of slaves; 158
192	192	(q) The Fugitive Slave Act; 159 SB 209 7
193	193	(r) The Underground Railroad; 160
194	194	(s) Prohibitions against teaching slaves how to read 161
195	195	and write; and 162
196	196	(t) Laws providing that conversion to Christianity did 163
197	197	not emancipate a slave; 164
198	198	(8) The participation of blacks in the Revolutionary 165
199	199	War and broken promises of freedom if they fought on the 166
200	200	side of the colonies; 167
201	201	(9) The participation of blacks in the Civil War; 168
202	202	(10) That as many as fifty million Africans lost their 169
203	203	lives during the four -hundred-year slave trade; 170
204	204	(11) The fact that the Emancipation Proclamation did 171
205	205	not free any slaves when issued by President Abraham Lincoln 172
206	206	due to the fact that Lincoln did not apply it to the four 173
207	207	slave states that did not secede from the Union, 174
208	208	specifically Missouri, Maryland, Delawar e, and Kentucky, nor 175
209	209	to the three slave states that seceded but were under Union 176
210	210	control at the time of the Emancipation Proclamation, 177
211	211	specifically Louisiana, Virginia, and Tennessee, and that 178
212	212	the Emancipation Proclamation could not be enforced in the 179
213	213	remaining eight slave states that made up the Confederacy 180
214	214	since such states were under the control of the Confederacy; 181
215	215	(12) That over one million Africans remained enslaved 182
216	216	in the United States on June 19, 1865, "Juneteenth", since 183
217	217	the Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to all slaves in 184
218	218	the United States; 185
219	219	(13) That the emancipation of all slaves in the United 186
220	220	States occurred on December 6, 1865, the date the Thirteenth 187
221	221	Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified 188
222	222	abolishing slavery in the United States; 189
223	223	(14) That the Thirteenth Amendment allowed one to be 190
224	224	enslaved for conviction of crime, which led to the former 191 SB 209 8
225	225	Confederate slave states' passage of the "Black Codes", 192
226	226	which allowed for conviction of black people f or trumped-up 193
227	227	crimes such as loitering and vagrancy, the imprisonment of 194
228	228	black people for such crimes, and the government leasing of 195
229	229	those black people to work, without pay, like slaves to 196
230	230	white-owned businesses, farmers, and manufacturers; 197
231	231	(15) The race massacres throughout the United States 198
232	232	following the Civil War, and particularly the bombing and 199
233	233	destruction of the black owned and occupied Rosewood 200
234	234	business and residential district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and 201
235	235	East St. Louis, Illinois; 202
236	236	(16) The violent overthrow of elected black 203
237	237	governmental officials of Wilmington, North Carolina, by a 204
238	238	white seditionist mob with no response by the state or 205
239	239	federal governments; 206
240	240	(17) Black reconstruction of the South; 207
241	241	(18) The compromise endin g reconstruction; 208
242	242	(19) Buffalo Soldiers; 209
243	243	(20) The participation of blacks in the Spanish - 210
244	244	American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and 211
245	245	the Vietnam War; 212
246	246	(21) Discrimination against black veterans; 213
247	247	(22) Discrimination against black West Point cadets; 214
248	248	(23) Discrimination against black soldiers and attacks 215
249	249	against black soldiers coming home from wars; 216
250	250	(24) The forced retirement of the highest -ranking 217
251	251	black Army officer, Colonel Charles Young, in order to av oid 218
252	252	promoting him as the first black Brigadier General solely 219
253	253	because he was black; 220
254	254	(25) Black inventions and inability of black inventors 221
255	255	to get loans or investments to develop their inventions; 222 SB 209 9
256	256	(26) President Woodrow Wilson's aid to the re vival of 223
257	257	the Ku Klux Klan and Wilson's ordering segregation of 224
258	258	governmental facilities and employees during his term of 225
259	259	office between 1913 and 1921; 226
260	260	(27) Laws mandating discrimination and segregation on 227
261	261	the basis of race; 228
262	262	(28) The real estate practices of redlining and 229
263	263	restrictive covenants; 230
264	264	(29) Prohibitions against black athletes in 231
265	265	professional and amateur sports; 232
266	266	(30) Laws prohibiting interracial marriages; 233
267	267	(31) President Harry Truman's order to integrate the 234
268	268	military; 235
269	269	(32) The Voting Rights Act, Public Accommodations Act, 236
270	270	Fair Housing Act, Hate Crimes Act, and Equal Employment 237
271	271	Opportunity Act; 238
272	272	(33) The following Supreme Court cases: Dred Scott v. 239
273	273	Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Educati on of 240
274	274	Topeka, Shelley v. Kraemer, and Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. 241
275	275	Canada; 242
276	276	(34) Significant African Americans in history; 243
277	277	(35) President Dwight Eisenhower's order for American 244
278	278	troops to protect black students integrating public schools; 245
279	279	(36) The civil rights movement; 246
280	280	(37) The counter intelligence program, "COINTELPRO", 247
281	281	the Federal Bureau of Investigation's conspiracy against 248
282	282	black civil rights leaders and groups; 249
283	283	(38) The freedom riders; 250
284	284	(39) The lynching of over four thousand African 251
285	285	Americans between 1877 and 1950; 252
286	286	(40) The black lives matter movement, and the police 253
287	287	murders of unarmed black people; 254 SB 209 10
288	288	(41) The Tuskegee experiment on black men by failing 255
289	289	to treat black men with syphilis to determine the e ffects of 256
290	290	untreated syphilis upon human beings; 257
291	291	(42) Painful and crippling gynecological experiments 258
292	292	on black women; 259
293	293	(43) Historically black colleges and universities; and 260
294	294	(44) Such other African American history as shall 261
295	295	fully detail and tell the history or story of Africans in 262
296	296	Africa, both before and after the European military invasion 263
297	297	and colonization of Africa and the enslavement of Africans, 264
298	298	including the European invaders and colonizers' violent 265
299	299	dispossession of Africans from their homelands, and of gold, 266
300	300	diamonds, and other minerals and natural resources; the 267
301	301	Europeans' deprivation of Africans of their human rights 268
302	302	both in the United States and in Africa; the African lives 269
303	303	and bodies lost as a result of the European invas ion and 270
304	304	colonization of the Americas and Africa; and African 271
305	305	Americans' history in the United States. 272
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