Yonkers Cited for Segregation
United Press International
NEW YORK —
A federal judge today found the City of Yonkers and its school board liable for racial segregation in housing and schools, the first time housing and schools have been linked by a federal court as a cause of segregation.
U.S. District Judge Leonard Sand sided with the Justice Department, which brought the suit in 1980, and the NAACP, which joined the action in 1981. Sand did not say what should be done to correct the situation in the state’s fourth largest city but set a conference on a remedy for Dec. 18.
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