Knocking on the door
Subtitle: the federal government's attempt to desegregate the suburbs
By: Christopher Bonastia.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780691119342
Subjects: Discrimination in housing -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Discrimination in housing -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Housing policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Affirmative action programs -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Suburbs -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.