levittown today is 95 percent very few minority families living there. when fix the damage that was done we just allowed all those inequalities to continue but said from this day forward we can't discriminate it didn't fix it all of these policies and practices these systems. federal government state government local government. they come verge to sort of create concentrated poverty by the time we reach the fifty's and sixty's so that creates a situation where many urban areas you have like what george clooney would call you know chocolate cities in the little suburbs. this year call it the white house but that's a temporary thing there's a lot of the city. we've got to get yeah every time i don't need to get l.a. . working and. going to get out you will be. contributing to tell you. there is no clue gram a promise that a president can bake i think that better the government going to come in they did it anyway they wanted to do that yes. that was the. condition of black veterans and white spectrums diverged even though when they returned from the war the

levittown today is over 95 percent white very few minority families living there. when fix the damage that was done we just allowed all those inequalities to continue but said from this day forward we can't discriminate sell it and fix it all of these policies and practices these systems. federal government state government local government pass and then they converge to sort of create concentrated poverty by the time we reach the fifty's and sixty's so that creates a situation where many urban areas you have like what george clooney would call you know chocolate cities in the little suburbs sadness. they still call it the white house but that's a temporary thing. there's a lot of the city. we've got to get some i don't need to get it. working and it. will be. interesting to tell you. the ways you know gram a promise that a president can bake i think the federal government's going to. do that yes. that is. the condition of black veterans of white veterans diversion even though when they return from the war they were economically similar families. public housing the

just because i was struck by how familiar it felt it was a connection to levittown that they both developed as post-war suburbs. i believe going in he built these houses he really built these houses for the veterans coming home from the war it was hard for him to get financing for these houses because they were so different the whole social part was his design. and. i shouldn't even don't i'm not even going to open oh he was a socialist and i think a lot of the people that moved in here well i'm going to get into this. my father is gregory again a fairly well known california architect from the forty's and fifty's. so this is letters. to say i just came into my hotel room from an interesting and unexpected visit to the basement drafting rooms that yeah why didn't have to tell of johnson's jewel that new canaan he is a real fascist intellectual. i started running through some old papers and then i came across this here 200 page 100 he had 200 page file that the f.b.i. kept on and then they were watching everything he did in the mid forty's to the mid fifty's. gregory believes that decent hou

all black neighborhood in my life changed when we moved to south jersey not far from some of the levittown type of neighborhoods and when we came in the police had to come in with us because people were throwing things at our house and terrorizing our house at night. and we moved there because we wanted a place that was integrated and we just wanted to raise our standard of living and it was the strength of my parents that said this is where we're going to be. do you think moving here will affect the community as a whole. definitely in what way i think that well the property values what i mean to go down if they are allowed to move in here in any numbers do you think them are 11 will affect property values. i don't think. property. and i think you purely i might not happen. well as a result of all these policies we created a segregated system and because we forgot now this entire history of how it happened. white families believe that they got where they are simply by their own hard work and determination to succeed in the middle class life. but they don't understand. is that their parents