Member schools were predominantly located in suburban Wayne County, Michigan, mainly in Downriver.
Consequently, current member schools Dearborn Heights Robichaud and Romulus filed complaints against the conference for denying their admission as members to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the United States Department of Education.
OCR determined that the athletic league violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The schools declined a resolution offered by the OCR and subsequently sent the subject to the Justice Department in the summer of 1995.
A resolution was succeeded by the eighteen founding members and the Justice Department to include the aforementioned schools and five others (Highland Park, Inkster, River Rouge, Ypsilanti, Ypsilanti Willow Run) encompassing an athletic conference of twenty five schools.