Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the SuburbsPrinceton University Press, 2010 M11 16 - 256 pages Knocking on the Door is the first book-length work to analyze federal involvement in residential segregation from Reconstruction to the present. Providing a particularly detailed analysis of the period 1968 to 1973, the book examines how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) attempted to forge elementary changes in segregated residential patterns by opening up the suburbs to groups historically excluded for racial or economic reasons. The door did not shut completely on this possibility until President Richard Nixon took the drastic step of freezing all federal housing funds in January 1973. Knocking on the Door assesses this near-miss in political history, exploring how HUD came surprisingly close to implementing rigorous antidiscrimination policies, and why the agency's efforts were derailed by Nixon. |
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... Civil Rights Issue Every few years, Americans are left with another civil rights milestone to consider. Recently, journalists, scholars, movement participants, and politicians have pondered the impact of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 ...
... civil rights : employment , education , and housing . Congress enacted legal protections against hous- ing discrimination four years after the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 , which prohibited discrimination in employment and ...
... civil rights policies such as affirmative action in em- ployment and school desegregation (until it was abandoned) ... Act of 1965, the specific policies that would carry out the aims of these laws took form during the Nixon Administration.
... civil rights policies in housing from those in other areas, such as employment and education, where the United ... Civil Rights Act. In the late 1960s and early 1970s , courts often responded to THE FORGOTTEN CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE 5.
... civil rights agencies , in most cases deferring to the expertise of the ... act autonomously , he argues , agencies must establish political legit ... civil rights agencies created in the 1960s . While agencies in the late nineteenth and ...
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