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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... landmark Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision moved excruciatingly slowly until congressional passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In the late 1960s and early 1970s , courts often responded to THE FORGOTTEN CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE 5.
... congressional committees, informational advantages of bureaucracies, and political appointees be- coming ideological compatriots of agency employees rather than the White House.16 In more recent years, scholars have refined their ...
... congressional testimony , court decisions , and secondary accounts . In addition to documenting the evolution of federal housing policies , chapter 3 examines the long legislative battle to establish a cabinet de- partment for housing ...
... Congressional Quarterly observed , " the wildest opti- mist would not have predicted enactment of the bill which President Johnson soon will sign into law . ” 3 In fact , two sections of the law that would prove most influential in the ...
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