Dear Articles Editor:
I am currently completing the manuscript below and was considering sending to you. Could you be so kind as to let me know if you are interested?
Federalism, Civil Rights, and Housing:
The Evolving Role of State and Local Governments
Charles S. Bullock, III
Richard
B. Russell Chair in Political Science
Josiah
Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor
Distinguished University Professor of Public
and International Affairs
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
csbullock57@hotmail.com
Charles M. Lamb
Research Professor
Department of Political Science
University at Buffalo, SUNY
Buffalo, NY 14260
clamb@buffalo.edu
Eric M. Wilk
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science and International
Affairs
University of North Georgia
Gainesville, GA 30566
ewilk@buffalo.edu
Keywords: state and local
governments, federalism, civil rights enforcement, fair
housing
Direct correspondence to
Charles M. Lamb, Department of Political Science, University at Buffalo, SUNY,
Buffalo, NY 14260
Abstract
Fair
housing law is an overlooked example of cooperative federalism, which has evolved
over time, and its history can be divided into four major developmental stages:
a federal phase beginning with the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, a
progressive state and local period extending from the 1920s to the late 1960s,
a third phase led by the national government and characterized by the passage
of landmark federal legislation, and a fourth period in which state and local
civil rights agencies have become indispensable. State and local fair housing
accomplishments in the second and fourth stages have been largely ignored, but this
progress is directly relevant to combatting future discrimination. Finally, the
fair housing movement has been evolutionary, and when one level of government
has made little headway, another level has assisted in slowly nudging it along.
Sincerely,
Charles Lamb