House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes.

Instead of enacting 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, amends GS 115C-81.45 instead to require that a unit on civil rights be included as part of the middle school civic and citizenship education standard course of study and high school course in Founding Principles of the United States of America and North Carolina: Civil Literacy. Requires that the unit include the topics listed in the previous edition, with the following changes. Specifies that the topic of the civil rights movement that occurred in the US from 1954 through 1968 includes 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; and the repeal of the Jim Crow laws of that era and the passage of civil rights legislation in the United States. Requires instruction on other acts of discriminatory injustice elsewhere around the globe to reinforce the lesson that hatred on the basis of immutable characteristics can overtake any society, removing the previously stated examples of such discriminatory injustice.