Enacts new GS 115C-81.58 requiring coverage of the civil rights movement (1954-1968) in the standard course of study for students in elementary through high school. Includes list of topics required to be covered: the natural law and natural rights principles that informed the leadership of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; the tactics and strategies of nonviolent resistance that Dr. King championed in response to the Jim Crow laws of that era; the repeal of the Jim Crow laws of that era and the passage of civil rights legislation in the United States; the philosophy that hatred on the basis of immutable characteristics leads to profound injustice; and instruction on other acts of discriminatory injustice, such as genocide, elsewhere around the globe to reinforce the lesson that hatred on the basis of immutable characteristics can overtake any society. Gives examples of acts of discriminatory injustice, including the Armenian Genocide, Holocaust, Chinese Collie labor in Cuba, Uighurs in China, and Rohingya in Myanmar.

Appropriates $250,000 in nonrecurring funds from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction for 2023-24 to implement this act.

Effective July 1, 2023. Applies to courses taught beginning with the 2024-25 school year.