The now-airing HBO miniseries "Show Me a Hero" highlights the long and extensive fight in Yonkers over desegregation, and News 12 talked with two people who were right on the front lines of the fight.

In one scene from the show, protesters on both sides of the desegregation battle make sure their voices are heard - a scene which former Yonkers Mayor Angelo Martinelli does not need help remembering.

"It told exactly what happened at the time, and I think it was maybe even more tumultuous at the time than they portray," he says.

Martinelli and Westchester County Legislator Ken Jenkins appeared on News 12's Newsmakers series to not only talk about the show, but the long and costly battle that consumed Yonkers in the late 1980s and early '90s, and the perspective that comes two decades later.

Jenkins says that, in retrospect, the fighting may seem unnecessary, but the results were worth it.

Currently, Westchester County and the HUD are at odds over building affordable housing in a battle that has already costs the county millions of dollars. And while Martinelli and Jenkins can agree on the past, their views of the future differ.

Martinelli says that County Executive Rob Astorino has inferred that the county has complied with the HUD. Jenkins says the situation is about "setting a process in place where you have fair and affordable housing all the time and not just building the units, but having the process and procedures in place to follow up with them."