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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... largely a lost cause, or so it may appear. Some interpret the call for residential desegre- gation as implying that people of color need to be around whites to thrive. To others, residential desegregation simply lacks urgency. In this ...
... 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 serious housing shortage had led Congress to make an ...
... largely untapped . Left to their own devices , localities believed that their self - interest rested in ex- cluding nonwhites, and—whenever possible—families of low and mod- erate income, THE FORGOTTEN CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE 17.
... largely on the question of whether showing that a policy or practice has a disproportionate racial impact (regardless of intent) is enough to prove a violation of the right to fair housing. In employment, the Supreme Court established ...
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