Word: storefront
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hustling a living on the streets has a native savvy that can be channeled into the classroom. In the past year, eleven major U.S. corporations, including Time Inc., have anted up $30,000 to $50,000 as sponsors. The money pays for the leasing and remodeling of a ramshackle storefront, teachers' salaries, books, and the expenses of street workers, who roam the ghetto, "rapping" (talking) with dropouts and actively recruiting them for the academies. In turn, the corporation receives a shingle with its name in front of the school and the abstract benefit of a presence in the ghetto...
...street workers, often storefront graduates themselves, make the initial contact with a promising dropout. Upon entering the academy, a youngster takes a bedrock curriculum of reading, English grammar and arithmetic. Once attending regularly, he moves on to a storefront Academy of Transition, where the spectrum of courses is broader and the teachers-often college graduates disillusioned with the public schools-attempt to stimulate his interest in further learning...
Soul Food and Shirts. In Watts and other mostly Negro areas of Los Angeles, "Operation Bootstrap," sponsored by private and corporate donations, operates a dozen storefront schools, giving instruction in such courses as computer programming, Swahili, and microwelding. "We consider everything that goes on here a school," says Co-Founder Lou Smith. Aimed primarily at preparing dropouts for available jobs rather than college, the program helps pay its own way by mining the talents of the students, who have published books on Afro-American history and designed African-style shirts and dresses that were featured at a fashion show...
...Louis' Curtis Brostron, 63, has probably involved his department more intimately with the ghetto than any other force. The city was singled out for special praise by the President's riot commission. Storefront offices in the slums are not so much police stations as referral stations-each staffed by a cop, a sanitation man and a member of the state employment service-for a whole spectrum of social problems, from health to jobs. Police are given partial credit for keeping St. Louis relatively quiet. Other problems remain unsolved. St. Louis has a rising crime rate...
Directly across the street from the Rockefeller Headquarters where the girls work are the New England Headquarters for Dick Nixon. The difference is visible. The Nixon Headquarters are neat and tidy and have a back-room but no storefront...