Carey Stronach’s story, which he will tell himself at Accuracy in Academia’s next Capitol Hill briefing, is particularly heart-rending and contains many ironies. The 66-year-old physicist spent four decades teaching at a historically black college—Virginia State University (VSU)—one of the few white professors on the Petersburg campus. He befriended a political dissident on campus and vocally and aggressively championed her cause in speeches and articles. Her name is Jean Cobbs. Dr. Cobbs was fired at VSU after a decade of harassment by the administration there. In three-and-a-half decades at VSU, the black sociologist created the Department of Social Work, got...