Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb

Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb by Kushner, David. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780802717955.

In the decade after World War II , real estate developer Levitt & Sons helped thousands of people buy into the American dream of owning a home. They laid out the welcome mat, but not to everyone. Levittown had a whites-only policy. The events that unfolded in Levittown, Pennsylvania, in the unseasonably hot summer of 1957 would rock the community. There, a white Jewish family secretly arranged for a black family to buy the pink house next door. The 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.