https://archive.ph/1O9nq https://archive.ph/1O9nq Black students stole from a bakery. Baker chased students, who were eventually arrested. This led to protests

https://archive.ph/1O9nq https://archive.ph/1O9nq Black students stole from a bakery. Baker chased students, who were eventually arrested. This led to protests and accusations of racism against the bakery. University administrators (in particular the Dean of Students) actively took part and supported these, and advocated for the university to end its business relationship with the bakery. > The appellate judges held that while the trial court had properly found that “the student chants and verbal protests about the Gibsons being racists were protected by the First Amendment,” what separated Oberlin and placed it in a financial vise was the active, irresponsible and defamatory actions of several of its senior administrators. Rather than try to resolve the matter early on or use the resulting guilty pleas as a lesson, Oberlin actively sought to punish Gibson’s Bakery for having a different perspective, for standing by the arrest of the three Oberlin students, and for exercising its right of legal redress.