JUDGE, JURY, AND EXECUTIONER.

SAND, Leonard B., 1928-2016; ACTIVISM; PUBLIC housing; LOW-income tenants; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); SEGREGATION

YONKERS (N.Y.); UNITED StatesReport Available

Focuses on the performance of federal judge Leonard Sand in the city of New York. Recognition of Sand as a frenetic judicial activist; Role of Sand in coercing compliance with his court order for Yonkers to build public housing in low-income neighborhoods; Overview of the race discrimination case in the housing and school policies in Yonkers; Link between public housing and racially segregated neighborhood schools.