Christopher Bonastia: 2 books
Knocking on the Door
The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
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...
Southern Stalemate
Five Years without Public Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
In 1959, Virginia’s Prince Edward County closed its public schools rather than obey a court order to desegregate. For five years, black children were left to fend for themselves while the courts decided if the county could continue to deny its citizens public education. Investigating this remarkable...