Levittown - Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb (Paperback)

"A riveting account of two families--one African-American, the other white and Jewish--who worked together in the summer of 1957 against tremendous odds to begin the inevitable integration of America's first suburbs."--"Minneapolis Star Tribune

"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.