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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... AGENCIES AND COMMISSIONS 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 ...
... agency was unable to foster mean- ingful changes in segregation patterns . Scholars of social policy study success ... agency's housing pro- duction programs and his own inability to steer this massive , unwieldy bureaucracy ...
... agency made its component offices particularly apt to lose legitimacy, and how the array of missions within the agency resulted in various sectors of the agency working at cross-purposes from one an- other. These characteristics in ...
... agencies.8 When courts have acted prior to legislative passage and agency action, lit- tle change has ensued. To wit, school desegregation after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision moved excruciatingly slowly until ...
... agencies , in most cases deferring to the expertise of the agencies in civil rights enforcement ( see , for example , the Supreme Court's 1971 Griggs v . Duke Power ... agency division(s) through which relevant policies are 6 CHAPTER ONE.
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