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Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb
Walker & Company
February 2009
On Sale: February 3, 2009
256 pages
ISBN: 0802716199
EAN: 9780802716194
Hardcover
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The dark side of the American dream: the true story of the
first African-American family to move into the iconic
suburb, Levittown, PA . In the decade after World War II , one entrepreneurial
family helped thousands of people buy into the American
dream of owning a home. T he Levitts—William, Alfred, and
their father, Abe—pooled their talents to create storybook
towns with affordable little houses. T hey laid out the
welcome mat, but not to everyone. Levittown had a whites-
only policy. The events that unfolded in Levittown, PA, in the
unseasonably hot summer of 1957 would rock the community.
There, a white Jewish Communist family named Wechsler
secretly arranged for a black family, the Myerses, to buy
the pink house next door. T he explosive reaction would
transform their lives, and the nation, leading to the
downfall of a titan and the integration of the most famous
suburb in the world. Levittown is a story of hope and fear,
invention and rebellion, and the power that comes when
ordinary people take an extraordinary stand. And it is as
relevant today, more than fifty years later, as it was then.
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