Okla. Stat. tit. 70, § 70-11-103.6p: Civil rights curriculum

A. The State Department of Education shall develop and make

available to every public elementary school and high school in the

State of Oklahoma, a curriculum that may be taught as a stand-alone

unit of instruction, or may be integrated into one or more existing

courses of study, studying the events of the civil rights movement

from 1954 to 1968, the natural law and natural rights principles

that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., drew from that informed

his leadership of the civil rights movement, and the tactics and

strategies of nonviolent resistance that he championed in response

to the Jim Crow laws of that era. This period in American history

is known as the civil rights era because during this period reform-

minded Americans organized to press for a rejection of the doctrine

of "separate but equal" and to repeal the Jim Crow-era laws in parts

of the United States that embodied that doctrine. One of the

universal lessons of the civil rights era is that hatred on the

basis of immutable characteristics, including not just race or

ethnicity, but also characteristics such as nationality, religious

belief, disability, or sex, can overtake any nation or society,

leading to profound injustice. To reinforce that lesson, such

curriculum shall include an additional unit of instruction studying

other acts of discriminatory injustice, such as genocide, committed

elsewhere around the globe. The study of this material is a

reaffirmation of the commitment of the people of this state to

reject bigotry, to champion equal protection under the law as a

foundational principle of our Republic, and to act in opposition to

injustice wherever it may occur.

B. The State Department of Education shall identify resources

and provide exemplar units or sample lesson plans designed to help

teachers provide instruction on the subject matter outlined in this

act.