Uprooting Liberty

Yonkers, New York. Fearing crime andrnlower property values, Yonkers refusedrnto erect public housing units in high-incomernareas and impose school busing.rnThis was "grassroots tyranny," Bolickrnwrites, but fortunately the feds "blewrnthe whistle" on the city's "recalcitrance."rn"The brazen actions of the Yonkers cityrngovernment to perpetuate segregationrnwould have made . . .