The Levittown house helped shape the American suburb

Two police patrol on the sidewalk, far left, in front of the newly-purchased home of William Myers, a black man who bought the house in this all-white community in Levittown, Penn, Aug. 16, 1957. (AP Photo/Bill Ingraham, File)

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