Levittown
- The first ever housing community
William Levitt (Click Picture for Source) - Built by William Levit in 1951
- The housing development had only two styles of housing: Ranch houses and Cape Cods
- Filled with cookie-cutter houses and streets
- Thousand of young families were ready to own a home for a $10 deposit and a $90 settlement
- No black families were allowed to live in Levittown
- One black couple did buy a Levittown house. They were faced with rock throwers, threats, and racist mobs of screaming middle class families.
- The whites-only rule was eventually stopped due to political pressure and lawsuits
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| Levittown in 1957 (Click Picture for Source) |