Newsday Opinion

Long Island Divided Chapter 3: Peaches and Yards


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Levittown’s early legacy of discrimination had an effect that lingers to today. Listen to interviews with early Levittown residents who relished the opportunity to own a house and land, as well as two black former-residents who faced discrimination when their families squeaked through the cracks and moved in. They, like home-seekers today, just wanted the opportunity that others already had.
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Newsday OpinionBy Mark Chiusano

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