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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... Efforts 121 CHAPTER Six The Recent Past, Present, and Future of Residential Desegregation List of Abbreviations for Notes Notes Works Cited Index 144 167 169 207 227 PREFACE GROWING UP in suburban New Jersey, I was struck.
... efforts to carry out federal civil rights laws, and courts largely deferred to the wisdom of the agencies.6 Led by the liberal George Romney, HUD was charged with enforcing the newly passed fair housing law “affirmatively.” Moreover, a ...
... efforts came unhinged. The Nixon Administration merits close examination as a pivotal period in explain- ing the divergence of federal civil rights policies in housing from those in other areas, such as employment and education, where ...
... efforts, especially when courts have supported these actions. The White House has had similar problems. Wilson notes that “the White House repeatedly tries to tidy up these relationships and bring the regulatory agencies under close ...
... efforts in civil rights during the Johnson and Nixon administra- tions. While Rosenberg may be correct in arguing that court rulings alone may have only minor effects on social policies, he underestimates the extent to which judicial ...
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