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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... out here in the world with us . Who says no one meets anyone on the subway platform ? Christopher Bonastia Brooklyn April 14 , 2005 ABBREVIATIONS FOR FREQUENTLY CITED GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND COMMISSIONS EEOC FHA PREFACE xi.
... EEOC FHA HEW HHFA HOLC HUD OCR OFCC USCCR Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Federal Housing Administration Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Housing and Home Finance Agency Home Owners' Loan Corporation Department of ...
... (EEOC), as a stand-alone agency, logically would not have had the same ease of access to information and resources. Iron- ically, in the case of the EEOC, limited state capacity led to innovation and aggressiveness, as staffers devised ...
... EEOC was created with little enforcement authority and meager funding. What the agency did possess was a unity of ... EEOC's life, employees realized that the relative ineffectiveness of investigating individual complaints of dis ...
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