Dover Delaware’s Strange Fruit
On October 6, 2012 in Dover Delaware this blogger was confronted with claims of a lynching, an attempted lynching and a cover up that were not immediately credible due to their severity and the lack of media on the subject. I agreed to investigate the grievances and allegations to the best of my ability and if warranted petition appropriate authority to take action. Here is my weblog as I struggle to place in some kind of order all the information within my notice concerning this case. Stranger than fiction.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Exercising First Amendment Rights while Black…
Dr. Issa and three of his children
Dr. Jahi Issa was a professor at Delaware State University in the History Department. His phd. is in U.S. History focusing on the South. When the racist leaflet distributed in Dover reached him at Delaware State University in February 2012, Dr. Issa began teaching about lynching and speaking out against the flyers.
In March his students decided to protest. Some students were upset about the flyers and they were concerned with Delaware State University, a Historically Black College/University, dismissing black faculty and replacing them with white faculty. Leaders from the Wilmington Delaware office of the ACLU advised Dr. Issa and a group of students to exercise their first amendment rights. Then the ACLU called the college and alerted campus officials that a protest was impending.
Dr. Issa was arrested at the protest, resulting in a separated shoulder and him being hospitalized with his blood pressure over 200
via Dover Delaware’s Strange Fruit: Exercising First Amendment Rights while Black….
