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100 1 $aBelkin, Lisa,$d1960-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92089039
245 10 $aShow me a hero :$ba tale of murder, suicide, race, and redemption /$cby Lisa Belkin.
260 $aBoston :$bLittle, Brown,$c1999.
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520 $aWhen Nicholas Wasicsko was growing up, he knew he was going to be mayor of Yonkers. The other kids teased him about his dream, calling him "The Mayor" on the basketball court. But on November 3, 1987, when he was only twenty-eight years old, Nick did indeed become mayor - in fact, the country's youngest.
520 8 $aIt turned out to be less than a dream job. The city had just been slapped with a court order demanding that it build public housing on the white, middle-class side of town in order to right what the judge saw as an intentional, decades-long pattern of segregation. Shortly after taking office, and after careful deliberation with the city's lawyers, Nick agreed to comply with the court order. This decision would lead to a virtual civic meltdown, and the shattering of his own hopes and dreams.
520 8 $aShow Me a Hero is about the battle between the judge and Nick's city, and also about what happens after - after the lawyers have gone, the protesting has stopped, the townhouses have been built, and the newcomers have moved in. It's about Alma Febles, a magnetic young mother desperate to move her three children into a real home. It's about the nearly blind Norma O'Neal, who couldn't get home health care in the projects.
520 8 $aIt's about Mary Dorman, an activist - first, against the housing; then, gradually, for it - for the first time in her life. And it's about Nick Wasicsko and his wife Nay, trying to build a life amid the political rubble.
651 0 $aYonkers (N.Y.)$xRace relations.
651 0 $aYonkers (N.Y.)$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aYonkers (N.Y.)$xPolitics and government.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zNew York (State)$zYonkers$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aPoor$zNew York (State)$zYonkers$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aPublic housing$zNew York (State)$zYonkers$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aSocial conflict$zNew York (State)$zYonkers$xHistory$y20th century.
852 00 $bswx$hF129.Y5$iB45 1999