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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... school, you could count the black and Latino students on one hand. When I traveled thirty minutes to explore New ... desegregation. That dissertation mu- tated and expanded into this book. In my attempt to explain the failure of residential ...
... school desegregation took place and that affirmative action in employment took hold , beginning with the presi- dentially approved " Philadelphia Plan ” to integrate the construction trades.4 At several junctures during this period ...
The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the Suburbs Christopher Bonastia. HUD was, in the end, unsuccessful ... school desegregation (until it was abandoned), these fac- tors alone fail to account for the varying trajectories of ...
... desegregation policies during the Nixon Administration is supplemented by an assessment of the evolution of federal ... school desegregation after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision moved excruciatingly slowly until ...
... school busing and housing desegre- gation, and vocal public opposition to school busing far outweighed opposition to housing desegregation. In employment, federal agencies implemented affirmative action without the support of Congress ...
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