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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... early 1970s , the federal government had the opportunity to begin to correct the injustices that prevented African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities from obtaining hous- ing wherever they could afford . The federal ...
... early 1973 , disillusioned by widespread scandals in the agency's housing pro- duction programs and his own inability to steer this massive , unwieldy bureaucracy . Nevertheless , he was correct in pointing to the destructive effects of ...
... 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.
... early twentieth centuries typically employed strategies of incremental program expansion , Congress expected the civil rights agencies to act quickly to carry out their mandates . The mission of fighting racial dis- crimination had ...
... early work on administrative agencies asserted that they may be “captured” by business or other powerful interest groups. According to some of these arguments, progressive social policies such as the Social Security Act are the result ...
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