Levittown, Pennsylvania was the second “Levittown” built by William J. Levitt, who is often credited as the creator of the modern American suburb. The homes were moderately priced and required only a low down payment. William J. Levitt capitalized on the housing need in the area, buying up 5500 acres of farmland, and eventually building 17,311 homes. It seemed like the bland facade of middle-class conformity was peeling away — to reveal hatred and fear underneath. Down payments were $100—less than $900 in inflation-adjusted dollars—and zero for veterans with work. People of color were initially prohibited from residing in Levittowns, though one brave African American couple took the first steps toward fighting this discrimination when they moved into Pennsylvanias Levittown in 1957. However, this did not prevent a European-American family from reselling a home to an African-American family, and Levittown's first black couple, William and Daisy Myers, bought a home in the Dogwood Hollow section in 1957. They were met by rock-throwers, bomb threats and mobs screaming racist taunts at them. Virtually since its founding on New York’s Long Island in 1948, “Levittown” has been a byword for conformity: houses, people, aspirations; a kind of origin narrative of suburban homogeneity. And even in 1957, when William and Daisy Myers, a Black couple with young children, bought a house in Levittown, Pennsylvania, they were met with endless harassment and threats of violence, with little help from the local police to keep the mobs of angry, racist neighbors from … Mr. Myers was an army veteran working in Trenton as a refrigerator technician, while Mrs. Myers was a stay-at-home mother. Daisy and William Myers moved from Philadelphia to Levittown, Pennsylvania in 1957 seeking a better lifestyle. Samuel Snipes represented the Myers, the first Black family to … Gilbert gives voice and personality to the four individuals […] However, this book demonstrates the power of prejudice and how virally it spread in the suburb of the American Dream. But they were black. Their move to Levittown was marked with racist harassment and mob violence, which required intervention by state authorities. The Levitt family were a team of three men: Abraham (father), and William and Alfred (sons.) Daisy and Bill Myers, an African American family, received news that their family was growing. This is the cover of her autobiography telling about her Levittown experience, available at www.yorkheritage.org. Myers, an engineer, had lived in an area of Bristol Township that was not a part of Levittown. Levittown, Pennsylvania was the second "Levittown" built by William J. Levitt, who is often credited as the creator of the modern American suburb. A crowd gathers in front of the new home of Bill and Daisy Myers in Levittown in 1957. In spite of the couple’s month-long nightmare in Levittown, Daisy Myers (who went on to become an elementary school principal and, for two decades, assistant to U.S. Representative William F. Goodling) always accentuated the positive side. The Black couple was met with intense hostility by their neighbors. One black couple, Bill and Daisy Meyers, was daring enough to buy a Levittown, Pa. house in 1957. As news of this Levittown “first” quickly spread, so did the curiosity. The Myers family exposed the dark reality underneath that peaceful facade that William Levitt had forged. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to anonymous, race-baiting residents of Levittown, PA, and scared adolescents on a witness stand. Working in Trenton as a refrigerator technician, while Mrs. Myers was a suburban town by... 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