“…great dismay and great concern for the perversion of history that is being perpetrated... If this [draft] is approved, it will inflict great harm on millions of students in our state.” — Dr. Clarence Jones, Speechwriter, Legal Counsel, and Advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in letter to Governor Gavin Newsom about the initial draft of the ESMC - the basis of the current Liberated Ethnic Studies Curriculum. Download PDF