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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... not an impossible one . This book chronicles federal governmental involvement in residen- tial segregation , placing particular focus on the years of the Nixon Administration , when HUD attempted to reverse this legacy of 2 טח CHAPTER ONE.
... Nixon , it was under Nixon that un- matched progress in Southern school desegregation took place and that affirmative action in employment took hold , beginning with the presi- dentially approved " Philadelphia Plan ” to integrate the ...
... Nixon seized upon this vulnerability. At first blush, the era of Richard Nixon's presidency (1969–74) may seem an unlikely period to identify as one in which effective federal at- tacks on residential segregation were most likely. Nixon ...
... Nixon Administration merits close examination as a pivotal period in explain- ing the divergence of federal civil rights policies in housing from those in other areas, such as employment and education, where the United States adopted ...
... Nixon, who began his sec- ond term determined to have federal agencies carry out his policy prefer- ences more closely. With respect to the judiciary, courts consistently backed forceful agency efforts in civil rights during the Johnson ...
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