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Describes how the entrepreneurial Levitt family constructed affordable community homes that were only available to white buyers, recounting how the Wechslers, a white Jewish communist family, secretly arranged for a black family to purchase a house next door, an arrangement that resulted in an explosive response and influential integration practices.
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2010Walker & Company · 256 pages · 9780802717955
- Other · English · 2009Walker & Co. · 237 pages · 9780802716194
Race relationsCivil rightsSegregationHistoryAfrican Americans











