White family in Levittown, PA react to black family moving into their neighborhood in 1957

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Crackers wanna erase all of this like it didn’t happen. Black folk just moving in the neighborhood and they acting like it was open rape season or something.

That vile way of thinking was prevalent in their minds then and STILL to this day. This type of stuff used to enrage me and gave me upset half the day. Now, while I am mad, I just keep thinking that this is going to change. But I try not to let it bother me. Some of y’all go crazy with the PAWGing but I just wonder if they seen stuff like this? How could you WANT to deal with a white woman? Makes no sense
 
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In the years following World War II, suburbs sprouted up across the United States, giving millions of Americans the ability to own a home. Levittown, in particular, became synonymous with the suburban dream, attracting young families looking for affordable property with modern comforts.

The Levitts, a Jewish family with roots in Russia and Austria, built the first of these towns on Long Island between 1947 and 1951. The second was built north of Philadelphia in the early ’50s. With their appliance-stocked homes, public pools and playgrounds, the Levitts proved adept at tapping into the suburban zeitgeist. But William Levitt (whose father, Abraham, founded the company, and whose brother, Alfred, was the firm’s architect) excluded blacks from living in his family’s developments, arguing that potential white home buyers would find racially mixed areas undesirable.

During the summer of 1957, this whites-only policy was challenged when a leftist Jewish family, the Wechslers, secretly helped an African-American family buy a house in Levittown, Pa. After Bill and Daisy Myers and their two children moved into Levittown, racial tensions erupted.

In his new book, “Levittown: Two Families, One Tyc00n, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America’s Legendary Suburb,” David Kushner vividly depicts how that battle raged and was ultimately resolved in the courts. Kushner, who grew up outside Tampa, Fla., says he “always has had a soft spot for suburbs,” and is particularly intrigued by their dark underside.

In “Levittown,” he tells a story that pitted Jew vs. Jew—William Levitt’s myopic and ultimately unsuccessful business strategy against the Wechslers’ refusal to tolerate segregation.
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Baltimore Jewish Times - National News | How Jews both Segregated and Integrated Levittown

I didn't know the explicit history but we all know suburbs were on this same time everywhere. Same guy in Long Island, constructed all these suburban developments all around the U.S. and world.
 
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