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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... Affirmative action programs — Government policy — United States — History— 20th century . 5. Suburbs - United States - History - 20th century . 6. United States - Politics and government — 1969–1974 . I. Title . HD7288.76.U5B66 2006 ...
... 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 period , HUD appeared to be building the momentum to ...
... affirmative action in em- ployment and school desegregation (until it was abandoned), these fac- tors alone fail to account for the varying trajectories of these policies. If one is to make sense of HUD's failure, it is crucial to ...
... affirmative action in employment, though Skrentny and Graham offer strong proof to the contrary in showing that advocacy groups did not initiate the call for affirmative action and were initially wary of this approach.22 After a social ...
... affirmative action without the support of Congress or the public—indeed largely without public knowledge. Thus, if public opin- ion does have an effect on agency actions, this effect is indirect, mani- fested in the responses of the ...
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