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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... Fair Housing Act of 1968 (the year 2003 marked its thirty-fifth anniversary), 1954's Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision (fiftieth anniversary) and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (fortieth anniversary). Some of these analy ...
... housing patterns . In the late 1960s and the early 1970s , the federal ... Act of 1964 , which prohibited discrimination in employment and education ... fair housing legislation lagged behind antidis- crimination protections in other ...
... housing desegre- gation by highlighting commonly cited factors: substantial ... Act of 1965, the specific policies that would carry out the aims of these ... fair housing law “affirmatively.” Moreover, a serious housing shortage had led ...
... housing , employment , education ) , or existing civil rights policies in other policy areas ( or by other political jurisdictions ) . After passage of the Civil Rights Act ... fair housing laws in a muted way ( using a colorblind , case - by ...
... Housing Administration ( FHA ) and Veterans Administration ( VA ) loan programs , from coverage . Title VII of the ... Act of 1968 states that “ it is the policy of the United States to provide , within constitutional limitations , for fair ...
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