Word: levittowner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being fought by people who fear that an influx of non-whites will decrease property values. Unofficial covenants between property owners have long kept a pattern of tenants satisfactory to those in the better neighborhoods. When these covenants break down, trouble and violence--such as the recent riots in Levittown, Pa.--result. New York is in for a long struggle in its effort to reach the ideal it preaches to the South...
...While Levittown, Long Island, suburbia's assembly-line Eden, celebrated its tenth birthday with fireworks, a 75-float parade, a midget football game and a performance of John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea, William Levitt, the ringtailed realtor who started it all, celebrated in his own way. For $1,750,000 he bought Belair, the 2,226-acre Maryland estate of the late William Woodward Jr. Purpose: more diapers and down payments in a new, 5,000-castle Levittown...
Bugles by Night. Myers, a 34-year-old, $4,800-a-year refrigeration-equipment tester, moved into his pastel-pink, three-bedroom, $12,150 ranch house in August because his family had outgrown a two-bedroom cottage in a predominantly Negro community a mile away. But his coming to Levittown flowered fears, jeers and widespread rumors that he was the spearhead of a Negro invasion. For days surly crowds grumbled outside his house, finally threw stones through its picture window. Bristol Township police were reinforced by tough state troopers at the direction of Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor George...
...rubber-stamp ranch-house community of Levittown, Pa. (pop. 60,000), the vacant house at 30 Darkleaf Lane last week came alive with a distinction all its own. From one roof peak flew an American flag, and from another-spotlighted by night-the stars and bars of the Confederacy. Each evening the house of the Confederacy was crowded with the members of the newly formed Dogwood Hollow Social Club who worked hard at a hard-boiled bad-neighbor policy. With windows wide open they chattered loudly over coffee, volumed up a phonograph, harmonized on Old Black Joe, aiming all this...
Friendliness by Day. Not everyone in Levittown belongs to the anti-Myers Social Club. More than 1,000 residents signed a "Declaration of Conscience" deploring "acts of violence and intimidation." Some came by to mow Myers' lawn, leave gifts or say hello. But even a few of these have paid the price of friendliness. Next-door neighbor Lewis Wechsler has been openly friendly since Myers moved in; since then a cross has been burned during the night on Wechsler's lawn and a painted KKK blobbed across one wall of his home. A woman who lives half...