(9) History. The student understands the impact of the American civil rights movement. The student is expected to:
(A) trace the historical development of the civil rights movement from the late 1800s through the 21st century, including the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 19th amendments;
(B) explain how Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux Klan created obstacles to civil rights for minorities such as the suppression of voting;
(C) describe the roles of political organizations that promoted African American, Chicano, American Indian, and women's civil rights;
(D) identify the roles of significant leaders who supported various rights movements, including Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Rosa Parks, and Betty Friedan;
(E) compare and contrast the approach taken by the Black Panthers with the nonviolent approach of Martin Luther King Jr.;
(F) discuss the impact of the writings of Martin Luther King Jr. such as his "I Have a Dream" speech and "Letter from Birmingham Jail" on the civil rights movement;
(G) describe presidential actions and congressional votes to address minority rights in the United States, including desegregation of the armed forces, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965;
(H) explain how George Wallace, Orval Faubus, and the Congressional bloc of southern Democrats sought to maintain the status quo;
Cont'd...
The "dropping" removed some of the language from a previous bill that required the Board of Education to incorporate a list of topics/places/events/people/writings in the standards. Removing that list (or most of it) didn't remove the topics from the standards, it removed the topics from the legislation that would require that those topics be added. Note that many of those things are already in the standards, some explicitly and some just required to teach the topic. For example, "NAACP" isn't in the standards ... except that it's a key "political organization that promoted African American ... civil rights." So with the KKK--teaching that it's immoral would be basically teaching that it pushed for Jim Crow enforcement and voter rights suppression. Just saying, "The KKK was bad, but we're not going to talk about what it did" makes little sense. And yet already "explain how Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux Klan created obstacles to civil rights for minorities such as the suppression of voting" is in the current standards--with no legislation, enacted or proposed, saying to remove it.
A technical note: When the Texas standards say "including" each of the names or events to be included *must* be taught, but it's not an exhaustive list; "such as" gives examples of what may be taught (but again, not exhaustive).
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