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Amend CSHB 3979 (house committee report) as follows:
(1) On page 1, line 17, strike "and".
(2) On page 2, line 5, between "States" and the underlined period, insert the following:
; and
(5) the history and importance of the civil rights movement, including the following documents:
(A) Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail 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; and
(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 Cesar Chavez
(J) The life and work of Dolores Huerta