Knocking on the door: the federal government's attempt to desegregate the suburbs
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1. Verfasser: Bonastia, Christopher (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press 2008
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Beschreibung:Originally published: 2006
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-225) and index
Preface; List of Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Government Agencies and Commissions; CHAPTER ONE: Residential Segregation: The Forgotten Civil Rights Issue; CHAPTER TWO: The Divergence of Civil Rights Policies in Housing, Education, and Employment; CHAPTER THREE: The Federal Government and Residential Segregation, 1866-1968; CHAPTER FOUR: Conviction and Controversy: HUD Formulates Its Fair Housing Policies; CHAPTER FIVE: Indirect Attack: A Housing Freeze Kills Civil Rights Efforts; CHAPTER SIX: The Recent Past, Present, and Future of Residential Desegregation
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 fun
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ISBN:1282086790
1400827256
9781282086791
9781400827251

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