Title Knocking on the door : the federal government's attempt to desegregate the suburbs / Christopher Bonastia.

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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2008.

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 234 pages)
Note	Originally published: 2006.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-225) and index.
Contents	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.
Summary	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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Subject	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.
	Discrimination in housing.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
	HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
	Affirmative action programs -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst00798903
	Discrimination in housing. (OCoLC)fst00895081
	Discrimination in housing -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst00895085
	Housing policy. (OCoLC)fst00962432
	Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
	Suburbs. (OCoLC)fst01136941
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title	Federal government's attempt to desegregate the suburbs
Other Form:	Print version: Bonastia, Christopher, 1967- Knocking on the door. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2008 9780691136196 069113619X (OCoLC)181142114
ISBN	9781400827251 (electronic bk.)
	1400827256 (electronic bk.)

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