LEGISLATION

Legislation establishing a commission:

Bill number: HB 1269
Title: An Act to Create The Mississippi Commission On the Holocaust; To Provide For The Membership Of The Commission; To Provide For the Powers and Duties Of The Commission; And For Related Purposes.
Date: 2004
Sponsored by: Rep. Herbert D. Frierson (R-106th)
Legislation: SECTION 1. The Legislature of the State of Mississippi finds and declares that: (a) During the period from 1933 to 1945, six million (6,000,000) Jews and millions of other Europeans were murdered in Nazi concentration camps as part of a carefully orchestrated program of cultural, social and political genocide known as the Holocaust;
SECTION 2. (1) There is created the Mississippi Commission on the Holocaust in the executive branch of state government. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2004.

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ACADEMIC STANDARDS

Mississippi Social Studies Framework and Guide (2004):

Minority Studies (one-semester Grade 9-12)
2. Describe the relationship of people, places, and environments through time.
e. Analyze the major events in history that have had an impact on different minority groups (e.g., the Holocaust, Trail of Tears, slavery, Japanese World War II Internment, and Chinese Exclusion, etc.).

These standards are mandatory in Mississippi.
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STATE RESOURCES

Mississippi Commission On the Holocaust
No contact information available.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Mississippi Department of Education
P.O. Box 771
Jackson, MS 39205
URL: http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/