An incarcerated instructor taught that Jim Crow literacy tests were racist. Then he was fired. - Open Campus

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An incarcerated instructor taught that Jim Crow literacy tests were racist. Then he was fired. - Open Campus

An incarcerated educator was fired from his teaching job at an Illinois prison after arguing with a prison counselor about whether he could teach students that literacy tests given to voters during the Jim Crow era were a racist attempt to suppress the Black vote. Now the instructor, Anthony McNeal, is suing in federal court, claiming the counselor and the prison warden violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. McNeal was teaching a pe…