Crisis in Levittown (1957)

★★★★ · Good pro-integration film. But cringe-y. · kerriganm · 2017-03-15

Mostly neutral presentation, with interviews of people with differing points of view. A bit depressing- how hard must it have been for the African American family, although we never get a description of the violence and harassment that they were subjected to, only hints. Crazyhead paranoia fiends aren't a new invention. An African-American family moves into an all-white town, and rumors fly that "the Reds" or "the Jews" or the evil "NAACP" are behind it. At the end, the narrator assures us that integration will not make the town erupt into hellfire. "I'm not racist, I just don't want colored…

★★★★ · White Racism Continues · masonlau · 2021-08-01

I think the comment made here by chrisnickey64 is a good indication of how the way whites thought in the 50s has not changed one bit. I find it interesting that this poster is blaming "inner-city transplants" for the degradation of Levittown. If a township remains exclusively--aggressively--white for decades, the people who live there should at least have the decency to take full responsibility for the township's degradation. It is more likely that the township suffered from the full-scale downslide in industrial and skilled labor jobs in urban areas throughout the country. In other words…

Asian Supremacists Thrive · mastema88 · 2022-07-11

The comment here by Masonlau is indicative of current-age Asian supremacists thought process. They believe they have knowledge above and beyond all others and have the privileged entitlement in a position of being a colored minority in their adopted country to cast aspersion on their white hosts.

History Rhyming · Nate Abernathy · 2023-04-11

We think this attitude is gone, but in some places it feels like this could have been filmed today.