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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... Issue 1 CHAPTER TWo The Divergence of Civil Rights Policies in Housing, Education, and Employment 25 CHAPTER THREE The Federal Government and Residential Segregation, 1866–1968 57 CHAPTER FoUR Conviction and Controversy HUD Formulates ...
The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the Suburbs Christopher Bonastia. KNOCKING ON THE DOOR Chapter One Residential Segregation The Forgotten Civil Rights Issue Every.
... Issue Every few years, Americans are left with another civil rights milestone to consider. Recently, journalists, scholars, movement participants, and politicians have pondered the impact of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 (the year 2003 ...
... to imple- menting unpopular antidiscrimination policies and why President Nixon derailed the agency's civil rights drive . It is perhaps obvious now that وو HUD was, in the end, unsuccessful. It may not be THE FORGOTTEN CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE ...
... . 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.
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