HB 2309 -- HISTORY CURRICULUM

SPONSOR: Windham

This bill requires that any history curriculum taught in grades seven to 12 includes specific topics of American History. The specified topics include: the expulsion of blacks from Pierce City in 1901; the human zoos at the World's Fair in 1904; the sharecropper's strike in southeast Missouri in 1939; the St. Louis Fairgrounds Park pool riot in 1949; and the Supreme Court cases Shelley v. Kraemer and Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada.

Statutes affected:
Introduced (4072H.01): 160.516, 170.343