The Detroit Public Schools school board closed Leslie Elementary School in Warrendale in 1985. In 1992 the Detroit Board of Education voted to move Malcolm X Academy, an "African-centered" curriculum school, into the former Leslie school.Hartigan, p. 209. Malcolm X had 470 students, one of whom was white. The move prompted a protest from the community, which at the time was a majority White working class community."Hostility Greets Students at Black School in White Area of Detroit." The New York Times. December 2, 1992. Retrieved on November 20, 2012. At the time the nearest elementary school in the immediate area, George Washington Carver Elementary School, was overcrowded.Hartigan, p. 210.
