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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1045
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR MOSLEY .
3809S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To amend chapter 170, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the history curriculum
in public schools.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 170, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto 1
one new section, to be known as section 170.342, to read as 2
follows:3
170.342. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of section 1
160.516 to the contrary, the state board of education shall 2
adopt and require that the history curriculum taught in the 3
seventh through twelfth grades include the following topics 4
of Native American history: 5
(1) A detailed history of indigenous Native American 6
society prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus, 7
including, but not limited to, the initial migrations of 8
peoples from Australia, Mongolia, and the Pacific Islands 9
into the Americas and the growth and development of various 10
indigenous Native American civilizations, nations, and 11
tribes; 12
(2) That Columbus did not discover America, did not 13
travel farther west than the Caribbean Islands, and did not 14
know that North and South America lay to the west of the 15
Caribbean Islands; 16
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(3) The murder, enslavement, and mutilation of 17
indigenous persons by Columbus, as well as Columbus's 18
stealing of gold and other property owned by such persons; 19
(4) That the three hundred thousand indigenous Native 20
Americans who resided on the island of Hispaniola at the 21
time of the arrival of Columbus were murdered, removed from 22
Hispaniola, and enslaved in Spain, or died from contracting 23
European diseases, resulting in the total genocidal 24
extermination of the indigenous Native American population 25
of Hispaniola within one hundred years of the arrival of 26
Columbus, such that not a single descendant of the 27
indigenous Native Americans who resided in Hispaniola at the 28
time Columbus invaded the island is alive today; 29
(5) A map identifying the name and approximate 30
geographic boundaries of each Native American nation and 31
tribe located in the present-day territory of the United 32
States at the time of the arrival of Columbus in the 33
Americas, as well as the estimated population of each such 34
nation and tribe at such time; 35
(6) That approximately ninety percent of the 36
indigenous Native American population, approximately fifty- 37
five million people, died as a result of the holocaust 38
inflicted upon them by the European military invasion and 39
colonization of the Americas, including a comparison between 40
the number of indigenous Native Americans residing in the 41
Americas at the time of the arrival of Columbus in the 42
Americas and the number of such persons currently residing 43
in the Americas; 44
(7) That approximately twelve million indigenous 45
Native Americans located in the present-day territory of the 46
United States died as a result of the holocaust inflicted 47
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upon them upon the European military invasion and 48
colonization of the lands that became such territory; 49
(8) Specifically identify the various causes of the 50
deaths described in subdivisions (6) and (7) of this 51
subsection, including, but not limited to, the number of 52
such deaths resulting from contagious diseases contracted 53
from Europeans and the number of such deaths resulting from 54
military action against indigenous Native Americans by the 55
European invaders and their descendants during their 56
colonization of the Americas; 57
(9) A map identifying the name and approximate 58
geographic boundaries of each Native American nation and 59
tribe located in the present-day territories of the states 60
of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North 61
Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee prior to the 62
forceful removal of such nations and tribes therefrom by the 63
United States Army due to the passage of the Indian Removal 64
Act of 1830; 65
(10) That forty-six thousand indigenous Native 66
Americans of the Cherokee Nation were forcefully removed 67
from Alabama and Georgia and relocated to Oklahoma, or 68
"Indian Territory", as a result of the Indian Removal Act of 69
1830, and that approximately ten percent or four thousand 70
six hundred of such persons died in the "Trail of Tears" as 71
a result of being forced by the United States Army to walk 72
from Alabama and Georgia to Oklahoma; 73
(11) That twenty-five million acres of fertile, 74
lucrative farmland were given away to white, illegal, 75
European immigrants who settled in Alabama, Arkansas, 76
Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South 77
Carolina, and Tennessee when indigenous Native Americans 78
lost their homelands as a result of the passage of the 79
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Indian Removal Act of 1830, and that the United States Army 80
forcefully removed those indigenous Native Americans from 81
their homelands and herded those indigenous Native Americans 82
into concentration camps in Oklahoma called reservations; 83
(12) The "Wounded Knee" massacre of indigenous Native 84
Americans and other such massacres of those indigenous 85
Native Americans by the United States Army; 86
(13) That two hundred and seventy million acres of 87
indigenous Native Americans' land was taken from them and 88
given to over one million white, illegal, European 89
immigrants as a result of the passage of the Homestead Act 90
of 1862 by the United States Congress; 91
(14) That, under the Homestead Act, each white, 92
illegal, European immigrant family was given one hundred and 93
sixty acres of indigenous Native Americans' farmland and 94
allowed to go for free to a land grant college or university 95
to learn agricultural techniques; 96
(15) That the Homestead Act resulted in the forceful 97
removal by the United States Army of millions of indigenous 98
Native Americans from their homelands in the "Northwest 99
Territory" after which such persons were herded into 100
concentration camps called reservations; and 101
(16) Such other topics of indigenous Native American 102
history as shall fully detail and tell the history or story 103
of indigenous Native Americans and the dispossession of 104
their lands and lives as a result of the European military 105
invasion, illegal immigration, and colonization of the 106
Americas, and particularly by the United States. 107
2. The state board of education shall adopt and 108
require that the history curriculum taught in the seventh 109
through twelfth grades include the following topics of 110
African American history: 111
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(1) A detailed history of Africa, including, but not 112
limited to, the birth of humanity in Africa, initial 113
migrations of Africans out of Africa and into all continents 114
and islands of the Earth, the development of black African 115
civilizations, including, but not limited to, Egypt, Nubia, 116
Kush, Ethiopia, Mali, Ghana, Songhay, Benin, Kanem-Bornu, 117
and Great Zimbabwe; the effects of slavery and colonialism 118
upon African societies; African independence movements; and 119
modern-day Africa; 120
(2) Pre-Columbian contact between the indigenous 121
Native Americans and Africans, including contact, 122
visitation, interaction, and trade between Native Americans 123
with Egypt and Mali, as well as settlements of Egyptians and 124
Malians in both North and South America; 125
(3) The hypocrisy of the phrase "all men are created 126
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain 127
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and 128
the Pursuit of Happiness" in the Declaration of 129
Independence, given the enslavement of millions of human 130
beings in the United States; 131
(4) Slavery provisions in the United States 132
Constitution; 133
(5) The distinction between lifetime chattel slavery 134
instituted in the Americas and old-world slavery; 135
(6) The economics of slavery; 136
(7) The following topics related to slavery in the 137
United States: 138
(a) Slave breeding; 139
(b) Buck breaking; 140
(c) The rape of slaves; 141
(d) The mutilation of slaves; 142
(e) The castration of slaves; 143
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(f) The murder of slaves; 144
(g) The starvation of slaves; 145
(h) The poor clothing of slaves; 146
(i) Destroying slave families through the selling of 147
single members of slave families away from the family; 148
(j) Forcing slaves to work from sunup to sundown; 149
(k) The cruel and unusual punishment of slaves; 150
(l) The whipping of slaves; 151
(m) The shackling of slaves; 152
(n) A list of Presidents of the United States who 153
owned slaves, to wit, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, 154
James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van 155
Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, 156
Zachary Taylor, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant; 157
(o) Slave revolts; 158
(p) The burning and branding of slaves; 159
(q) The Fugitive Slave Act; 160
(r) The Underground Railroad; 161
(s) Prohibitions against teaching slaves how to read 162
and write; and 163
(t) Laws providing that conversion to Christianity did 164
not emancipate a slave; 165
(8) The participation of blacks in the Revolutionary 166
War and broken promises of freedom if they fought on the 167
side of the colonies; 168
(9) The participation of blacks in the Civil War; 169
(10) That as many as fifty million Africans lost their 170
lives during the four-hundred-year slave trade; 171
(11) The fact that the Emancipation Proclamation did 172
not free any slaves when issued by President Abraham Lincoln 173
due to the fact that Lincoln did not apply it to the four 174
slave states that did not secede from the Union, 175
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specifically Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, and Kentucky, nor 176
to the three slave states that seceded but were under Union 177
control at the time of the Emancipation Proclamation, 178
specifically Louisiana, Virginia, and Tennessee, and that 179
the Emancipation Proclamation could not be enforced in the 180
remaining eight slave states that made up the Confederacy 181
since such states were under the control of the Confederacy; 182
(12) That over one million Africans remained enslaved 183
in the United States on June 19, 1865, "Juneteenth", since 184
the Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to all slaves in 185
the United States; 186
(13) That the emancipation of all slaves in the United 187
States occurred on December 6, 1865, the date the Thirteenth 188
Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified 189
abolishing slavery in the United States; 190
(14) That the Thirteenth Amendment allowed one to be 191
enslaved for conviction of crime, which led to the former 192
Confederate slave states' passage of the "Black Codes", 193
which allowed for conviction of black people for trumped-up 194
crimes such as loitering and vagrancy, the imprisonment of 195
black people for such crimes, and the government leasing of 196
those black people to work, without pay, like slaves to 197
white-owned businesses, farmers, and manufacturers; 198
(15) The race massacres throughout the United States 199
following the Civil War, and particularly the bombing and 200
destruction of the black owned and occupied Rosewood 201
business and residential district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and 202
East St. Louis, Illinois; 203
(16) The violent overthrow of elected black 204
governmental officials of Wilmington, North Carolina, by a 205
white seditionist mob with no response by the state or 206
federal governments; 207
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(17) Black reconstruction of the South; 208
(18) The compromise ending reconstruction; 209
(19) Buffalo Soldiers; 210
(20) The participation of blacks in the Spanish- 211
American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and 212
the Vietnam War; 213
(21) Discrimination against black veterans; 214
(22) Discrimination against black West Point cadets; 215
(23) Discrimination against black soldiers and attacks 216
against black soldiers coming home from wars; 217
(24) The forced retirement of the highest-ranking 218
black Army officer, Colonel Charles Young, in order to avoid 219
promoting him as the first black Brigadier General solely 220
because he was black; 221
(25) Black inventions and inability of black inventors 222
to get loans or investments to develop their inventions; 223
(26) President Woodrow Wilson's aid to the revival of 224
the Ku Klux Klan and Wilson's ordering segregation of 225
governmental facilities and employees during his term of 226
office between 1913 and 1921; 227
(27) Laws mandating discrimination and segregation on 228
the basis of race; 229
(28) The real estate practices of redlining and 230
restrictive covenants; 231
(29) Prohibitions against black athletes in 232
professional and amateur sports; 233
(30) Laws prohibiting interracial marriages; 234
(31) President Harry Truman's order to integrate the 235
military; 236
(32) The Voting Rights Act, Public Accommodations Act, 237
Fair Housing Act, Hate Crimes Act, and Equal Employment 238
Opportunity Act; 239
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(33) The following Supreme Court cases: Dred Scott v. 240
Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education of 241
Topeka, Shelley v. Kraemer, and Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. 242
Canada; 243
(34) Significant African Americans in history; 244
(35) President Dwight Eisenhower's order for American 245
troops to protect black students integrating public schools; 246
(36) The civil rights movement; 247
(37) The counter intelligence program, "COINTELPRO", 248
the Federal Bureau of Investigation's conspiracy against 249
black civil rights leaders and groups; 250
(38) The freedom riders; 251
(39) The lynching of over four thousand African 252
Americans between 1877 and 1950; 253
(40) The Black Lives Matter movement, and the police 254
murders of unarmed black people; 255
(41) The Tuskegee experiment on black men by failing 256
to treat black men with syphilis to determine the effects of 257
untreated syphilis upon human beings; 258
(42) Painful and crippling gynecological experiments 259
on black women; 260
(43) Historically black colleges and universities; and 261
(44) Such other African American history as shall 262
fully detail and tell the history or story of Africans in 263
Africa, both before and after the European military invasion 264
and colonization of Africa and the enslavement of Africans, 265
including the European invaders and colonizers' violent 266
dispossession of Africans from their homelands, and of gold, 267
diamonds, and other minerals and natural resources; the 268
Europeans' deprivation of Africans of their human rights 269
both in the United States and in Africa; the African lives 270
and bodies lost as a result of the European invasion and 271
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colonization of the Americas and Africa; and African 272
Americans' history in the United States. 273
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