William and Daisy Myers in Levittown, Pennsylvania. Case Study of racial inequality in 1950's

Levitt & Sons would not sell homes to African Americans. Levitt did not consider himself to be a racist,considering housing and racial relations entirely separate matters. 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. Their move to Levittown was marked with racist harassment and mob violence, which required intervention by state authorities.
This led to an injunction and criminal charges against the harassers while Myers and their supporters refused to surrender and received national acclaim for their efforts. For instance, Daisy Myers has been hailed as "The Rosa Parks of the North".Who helped expose the northern states' problems with racial inequality of that time. Daisy Myers later wrote a book about her family's experiences.She died Dec. 5, 2011, in York, Pa.

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