Knocking on the door : the federal government's attempt to desegregate the suburbs
"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
Print Book, English, ©2006
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2006
History
xi, 234 pages ; 25 cm
9780691119342, 0691119341
61687935
Residential segregation : the forgotten civil rights issue
The divergence of civil rights policies in housing, education, and employment
The federal government and residential segregation, 1866-1968
Conviction and controversy : HUD formulates its fair housing policies
Indirect attack : a housing freeze kills civil rights efforts
The recent past, present and future of residential desegregation