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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... Congress has cataloged the cloth edition of this book as follows Bonastia , Christopher , 1967– Knocking on the door : the federal government's attempt to desegregate the suburbs / Christopher Bonastia . p . cm . Includes ...
... Congress, the Bentley Historical Library, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture were always helpful in clearing up my confusion. During my year at Queens College, Robin Rogers-Dillon, Victoria Pitts, Stephen Steinberg ...
... Congress enacted legal protections against hous- ing discrimination four years after the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 , which prohibited discrimination in employment and education . From 1964 to 1968 , federal bureaucrats began to ...
... Congress, to name a few. Yet, when we view housing desegregation in the context of other, rela- tively more successful civil rights policies such as affirmative action in em- ployment and school desegregation (until it was abandoned) ...
... Congress expected the civil rights agencies to act quickly to carry out their mandates . The mission of fighting racial dis- crimination had immediate legitimacy , though the agencies did need to develop legitimacy for the strategies ...
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Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the ... Christopher Bonastia No preview available - 2008 |