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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... responsibility seriously , and worked to fashion deseg- regation policies that rivaled the intensity of those that were being imple- mented in employment and education . Without question , administrative agencies attempting to battle ...
... responsibilities lie within a larger agency), Congress, or the White House, but they are un- likely to have success asking civil rights staffers to “ease up” and make the agency's efforts appear ineffectual. In housing, the National ...
... responsibilities. Even if the new insti- tutions are created, existing institutions influence their character in im- portant ways. Lastly, the failure to create policies and institutions may spur groups to make private arrangements that ...
... responsibility to the courts . In housing , Nixon ended desegre- gation policies indirectly by cutting off all housing funding . He did this at no electoral risk , since he waited until after his reelection to do so . The remainder of ...
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