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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... courts. Other faculty members at NYU—among them, Jeff Good- win (another running partner on the basketball court), Dalton Conley, and Ruth Horowitz—also helped me to shape and refine this project. John Skrentny became an indispensable ...
... Court decision (fiftieth anniversary) and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (fortieth anniversary). Some of these analy- ses bask in self-congratulation that we have “come so far,” while others approach something close to despair over how ...
... courts largely deferred to the wisdom of the agencies.6 Led by the liberal George Romney, HUD was charged with enforcing the newly passed fair housing law “affirmatively.” Moreover, a serious housing shortage had led Congress to make an ...
... courts have acted prior to legislative passage and agency action, lit- tle change has ensued. To wit, school desegregation after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision moved excruciatingly slowly until congressional ...
... courts often responded to the actions of civil rights agencies , in most cases deferring to the expertise of the agencies in civil rights enforcement ( see , for example , the Supreme Court's 1971 Griggs v . Duke Power decision ) ...
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