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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... passage and agency action, lit- tle change has ensued. To wit, school desegregation after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision moved excruciatingly slowly until congressional passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In ...
... passage of their legislative pro- posals , I investigate why certain agencies are able to initiate policy inno- vations based on existing law - even if these innovations are opposed by other political actors — while other , similarly ...
... passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 , which extended antidiscrimination protections to the area of housing , HUD had two plausible paths to follow . On the one hand , the agency could carry out fair housing laws in a muted way ...
... passage , lagging four years behind protections in the other two areas . Antidiscrimination initiatives . in employment and education did not develop much in the four years that transpired between passage of the two civil rights laws ...
... passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 ( the Fair Housing Act ) . Legislative de- bates reflect a Congress concerned with the growing power of federal civil rights bureaucracies , and debating whether a housing antidiscrimi- nation law ...
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