Azizi suggested that I further explain my experience teaching in Detroit in the 1970's in my somewhat opaque post above. That's not an easy job to do but this is what I PMed her:

"I was jumping about from one world to another. But it would take a book to lay out, and
argue through much of my experience. And no one book would ever do it justice. I'm not
going to try to do this on a Mudcat thread. LOL

12th Street was one of the most notoriously rough streets in Detroit in the 1970's.

The project I was involved with there was quite innovative. It was basically a series of
extension courses from Michigan State University (MSU), using class space at Wayne State
University. The students were 90% Black high school students, recruited by a small group
of Black teenagers from one neighborhood organization. One of the Wayne University
teachers lived in that neighborhood and had worked with the teenagers on other projects
and was impressed with their leadership capabilities.

Students who got good grades were assured acceptance and financial aid at MSU. Most
students did quite well.

The program began with 40 students. The next term jumped to 80 students. Each time the
program expanded, we were able to recruit more volunteer teachers, who donated their
stipends to pay for the students' tuition. When the program grew to 360 students MSU
shut it down. A mass protest was organized at the Detroit end, buses chartered to bring
students and their families up to East Lansing, an hour away, and where MSU is. At that
point the FBI began interviewing the student leadership, and they decided (wisely, I
suppose) to accept the full scholarships offered by MSU and called off the protest.

Maybe I'll see if I can find any sign of this program via Goggle, but I suspect it remained
under the radar and only exists in some file folder, packed in storage wherever the FBI
stores such records."

Charley Noble