Notable Primary Documents
(Please note that these items do not circulate and must be consulted on-site in the library.)
- NAACP (Yonkers branch). Black paper: the state of Yonkers, 1979 LH R 344.079 B
- Settlement agreement in United States of America v. Yonkers Board of Education LH R 344.079 S
- Settlement agreement in United States of America v. Yonkers Board of Education: housing portion (2007)
- LH R 346.043 S
Dissertations
(Please note that these items do not circulate and must be consulted on-site in the library.)
- Lynne M. Pachnowski. An analysis of the attitudes of public and private parents and students of Yonkers, New York, regarding the Yonkers Public Schools’ voluntary student transfer desegregation remedy (1994)
- LH R 370.19 P
- Geraldine Pisacreta. The effect of court-ordered busing for desegregation and the creation of magnet schools on student achievement (2000) LH R 379.26 P
- Rachelle M. Salerno. Segregation, northern style: a political history of non-policy making in Yonkers, New York (1985) LH R 363.55
- Michael V. Yazurlo. Desegregation: yesterday, today and tomorrow: a case study of the Yonkers public schools (1990) LH R 370.19 Y
- Also of interest: Bruce D. Haynes. The social construction of a black suburban community: a case study of Runyon Heights, Yonkers, New York, 1912-1994 (1995) LH R 305.896 H
Local newspapers
(online and in microfilm format)
- Microfilm of The Herald Statesman (mid-March 1932 – mid-October 1998)
- Microfilm of The Journal News (mid-October 1998 – present)
- Microfilm of The New York Times (1851 – present)
- Note: There is a charge of 15 cents per copy for printing from the microfilm reader.
- Online access to an archive of The Journal News is available on our website here. It can be accessed in the library and at home with your YPL library card.
- Please note: Though the library has an index to The Herald Statesman for the period September 1985 through mid-August 1998, The Herald Statesman is un-indexed for most of its run. The library has an index to The Journal News for the years:
- 2002 (incomplete)
- 2003
- Jan. – June 2004
- 2006 – 2010
- 2012 – 2016
Books with Local History Background
- Charles Allison. The History of Yonkers (W.B. Ketcham, 1896; reprinted, Harrison Hill Books, 1984) LH R 974.7277 A
- Lisa Belkin. Show Me a Hero (Little, Brown, 1999) LH R 974.7277 B – the deseg case during the mayoralty of Nicholas Wasicsko
- Harold A. Esannason and Vinnie Bagwell. A Study of African-American life in Yonkers from the turn of the century (H.A. Esannason, 1993) LH R 974.7277 S
- Bruce D. Haynes. Red lines, black spaces: the politics of race and space in a black middle-class suburb (Yale, 2001) LH R 974.7277 H – a study of the Runyon Heights neighborhood
- Rev. Thomas Shelley. Slovaks on the Hudson (Catholic U. Press, 2002) – good for Yonkers history in the 20th Century LH R 282.7472 S
- Frank Walton. Pillars of Yonkers (Stratford House, 1951) LH R 974.727 W
- Marilyn E. Weigold. Yonkers in the twentieth century (SUNY Press, 2014) LH R 974.7304 W
- Dated, but worth reading as a sketch of Yonkers history: Harrison Salisbury’s 4-part series on Yonkers in the New York Times, April 18-21, 1955 ; the first article has been reprinted in the Winter 2003 issue (vol.12, #4) of The Yonkers Historian, the Yonkers Historical Society newsletter.
The website https://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html claims to have posted the contents of The Herald Statesman for the years 1932-1985, with the exception of the year 1948; and this Web site allows for online searching
Official Documents
- The decision of the court rendered on November 20, 1985
- The court’s housing remedy order rendered on May 28, 1986
- A notice to plaintiff-intervenors of a proposed settlement and public hearing (in the education portion of the case) scheduled for March 26, 2002
- The settlement agreement (education portion of the case) dated January 31, 2002, and
- The settlement agreement (housing portion of the case) dated April 1, 2007.