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When I failed to see full coverage of the Levittown, Pa. riot, I began to wonder why. If this incident had happened in Montgomery, Ala., wouldn't you have carried...
Even more than most of the U.S. press, Philadelphia's twice-weekly Tribune found front-page copy in the ordeal of William Edward Myers Jr., 34, a refrigerator-equipment tester, after he moved his wife and three children into a three-bedroom house in Levittown, Pa. The Myerses are Negroes, the first to move into Levittown* and the Tribune, a Negro paper only 21 miles away, gave all-out coverage to the tense week in which state troopers finally discouraged the jeering, stone-throwing mob that kept badgering the Myers home...
...story suggested by Publisher E. Washington Rhodes, 61, onetime Pennsylvania legislator, state parole board member, and the first Negro to serve as an assistant U.S. Attorney in the area. In two full columns, jumping to a column inside, the paper listed the addresses, prices and brief descriptions of 187 Levittown houses being offered for sale by the Veterans Administration, which has foreclosed on defaulted mortgages. Reported the Tribune succinctly: "The Veterans Administration wants its money, and they don't care who buys the houses...
...Levittown, L.I., half a dozen Negro families have taken houses without any comparable ruckus...
Most builders were cheered by the changes. Said Levittown Builder William J. Levitt: "The new terms are a healthy stimulant to housing. They will enable the homebuilding industry to pull out of its nose dive starting right now, and housing starts should climb well over the 1,000,000 mark next year...