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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... 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.
... moving, unresponsive bureaucracies. What varies is the degree to which agencies successfully pursue and attain (or par- tially attain) their activist goals. One possibility is that Congress or the president exerts tight controls over ...
... moving parts, including builders, lending institutions, and real-estate brokers, as well as govern- mental entities concerned with housing. The most results-oriented ap- proach to combating racial inequality has proven to be addressing ...
... moves, a requirement that localities or metropolitan agencies develop and implement plans to fos- ter neighborhood integration, and race-conscious tenant assignments in public housing represent other policy possibilities. This book ...
... move helped Nixon to sidestep much of the blame normally pinned on politicians pursuing civil rights re- trenchment ... Moving to Oppor- tunity, a voucher-based mobility program modeled on the Chicago-area Gautreaux program that ran from ...
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