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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... Discrimination in housing - United States - History - 20th century . 2. Discrimination in housing - Government policy — United States — History— 20th century . 3. Housing policy — United States — History — 20th century . 4. Affirmative ...
... discrimination is in housing. While Americans continue to be- lieve that children are better off attending desegregated schools—at least if no sacrifices are required—residential segregation is largely a lost cause, or so it may appear ...
... discrimination four years after the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 , which prohibited discrimination in employment and education . From 1964 to 1968 , federal bureaucrats began to discover what approaches to desegregation were more ...
... discrimination and segregation in housing was unprece- dented . Though civil rights supporters typically had few positive things to say about President Richard Nixon , it was under Nixon that un- matched progress in Southern school ...
... sional mandates creatively to justify taking bold, race-conscious action in their respective areas. Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits entities receiving federal funds from engaging in racial discrimination . 16 CHAPTER ONE.
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