5174 AMH MCCU MCLA 647

SB 5174 - H AMD 505

By Representative McCune

FAILED 04/04/2011

    On page 1, line 11, after "as" insert "Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver,"

    On page 2, line 10, after "movement" strike "and" and insert ", to read key writings such as Reverend Martin Luther King's "letter from a Birmingham jail," and to understand"

EFFECT:   Adds to the list of heroes of the civil rights movement:  Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Booker T. Washington, and George Washington Carver.

Adds to the program topics that school districts are encouraged to provide in the commemoration of the history of civil rights: an opportunity to read key writings such as Dr. King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."   

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