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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... Southern school desegregation took place and that affirmative action in employment took hold , beginning with the presi- dentially approved " Philadelphia Plan ” to integrate the construction trades.4 At several junctures during this ...
... Southern whites, who had grown resentful of the outbreaks of black rage in inner cities and of the expanding scope of federal civil rights enforcement. Internal disputes over philosophies and protest strategies severely weakened the ...
... Southern communities to desegregate their schools in the absence of se- vere federal arm-twisting. Much of the struggle to foster suburban desegregation has butted up against the practice of exclusionary zoning by municipalities. In ...
... bill . " 4 Had Southern Democrats opposed to the bill bar- gained with the Senate leadership on amendments , rather than adhering to their ultimately failing filibuster strategy, a substantially weaker law— 9780691136196_3CH2.pdf.
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