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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... decision (fiftieth anniversary) and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (fortieth anniversary). Some of these analy- ses ... decisions, legislation, and bureaucratic implementation that constitute the “civil rights revolution” as a coherent ...
... 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.
... decision ) . Moreover , ignoring the role of govern- ment agencies in policy formation “ leaves the most important political outcomes — the impact of policies on citizens — unstudied . " 9 Skocpol argues that state bureaucracies are ...
... decisions may legitimate or undercut the actions of other governmental branches.18 Nevertheless, an agency's ability to achieve its goals is not reducible to the preferences of other branches. Even skeptics of agency independence such ...
... decision- making, opinion and policy are, however, often coupled loosely.25 Several policies may accord with public opinion, and citizens may often not know or care which specific policy options they prefer to carry out their broad ...
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