9.516. Eliot and Muriel Battle Day designated for June 28. — June twenty-eighth each year is hereby designated as "Eliot and Muriel Battle Day" in Missouri. The citizens of this state are encouraged to participate in appropriate events and activities to celebrate the lives of Eliot Battle, the first Black faculty member at Hickman High School in Columbia, and Muriel Battle, the first Black principal in the Columbia Public School District. The couple worked as a team to ease racial tensions during the 1960s and have been recognized with schools in Columbia named in their honor: Eliot Battle Elementary School and Muriel Williams Battle High School.
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(L. 2026 H.B. 2576 merged with S.B. 1544)