In adopting the essential knowledge and skills for the social studies curriculum, the State Board of Education shall adopt essential knowledge and skills that develop each student’s civic knowledge, including an understanding of:
(1)the fundamental moral, political, and intellectual foundations of the American experiment in self-government;
(2)the history, qualities, traditions, and features of civic engagement in the UnitedStates;
(3)the history of Native Americans;
(4)the structure, function, and processes of government institutions at the federal, state, and local levels; including:
(5)the founding documents of the United States,
(A)the Declaration of Independence;
(B)the United States Constitution;
(C)the Federalist Papers;
(D)the transcript of the first Lincoln-Douglas
(E)the writings of and about the founding fathers and mothers and other founding persons of the United States, including the writings of:
(i)George Washington;
(ii)Ona Judge;
(iii)Thomas Jefferson;
(iv)Sally Hemings; and
(v)any other founding persons of the UnitedStates;
(F)writings from Frederick Douglass’s newspaper, the North Star;
(G)the Book of Negroes;
(H)the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850;
(I)the Indian Removal Act;
(J)Thomas Jefferson ’s letter to the Danbury Baptists; and
(K)William Still ’s Underground Railroad Records;
(6)historical documents related to the civic accomplishments of marginalized populations, including documents related to:
(A)the Chicano movement;
(B)women’s suffrage and equal rights;
(C)the civil rights movement;
(D)the Snyder Act of 1924; and
(E)the American labor movement;
(7) the history of white supremacy, including but not limited to the institution of slavery, the eugenics movement, and the Ku Klux Klan, and the ways in which it is morally wrong;
(8)the history and importance of the civil rights movement, including the following documents:
(A)Martin Luther King Jr.’s "Letter from a BirminghamJail"and"I Have a Dream"speech;
(B)the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. Section 2000a et seq.);
(C)the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education;
(D)the Emancipation Proclamation;
(E)the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
(F)the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution;
(G)the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision in Mendez v. Westminster;
(H)Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave;
(I)the life and work of Cesar Chavez; and
(J)the life and work of Dolores Huerta;
(9)the history and importance of the women’s suffrage movement, including the following documents:
(A)the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. Section 10101 et seq.);
(B)the Fifteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution;
(C)Abigail Adams ’s letter "Remember the Ladies"
(D)the works of Susan B. Anthony; and
(E)the Declaration of Sentiments;
(10)the life and works of Dr. Hector P. Garcia;
(11)the American GI Forum;
(12)the League of United Latin American Citizens; and
(13)Hernandez v. Texas (1954).
