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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... passed most of the prominent twentieth century civil rights legislation during the Johnson Administration, in the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the specific policies that would carry out the aims ...
... passing legislation to prohibit specific agency actions or policies, or indirectly by threatening budget cuts, refusing to confirm political appointees, or making administrators squirm while testifying on Capitol Hill.13 It can be ...
... passed, its means of influence may shift from pressure on elected officials to the installation in government bureaucra- cies of “institutional activists,” social movement participants who hold positions within government and seek to ...
... passed . Within the broad political context , civil rights efforts in all three areas were up against public resistance and an administration that was ambivalent , at best , about extensions of existing policies . In more specific terms ...
... passed ordinances requiring minimum sizes for homes or lots, and banning multi-family housing, mobile homes, and subsidized housing.49 Towns designed these ordinances consciously to maintain economic segregation to the greatest extent ...
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Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the ... Christopher Bonastia No preview available - 2008 |