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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... Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Housing and Home Finance Agency Home Owners' Loan Corporation Department of Housing and Urban Development Office for Civil Rights (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare) Office of ...
... Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) —took this responsibility seriously , and worked to fashion deseg- regation policies that rivaled the intensity of those that were being imple- mented in employment and education ...
... Department , and Interior Department , Carpenter's account of American state - building is persuasive ; however , his findings do not map neatly onto the civil rights agencies created in the 1960s . While agencies in the late nineteenth ...
... departments.60 Lastly , at least in the case of busing , it is not entirely clear that Nixon alone could have halted ... Department of Health , Education , and Wel- fare's Office for Civil Rights ( OCR ) paid nearly exclusive attention ...
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