Levittown: Separate and Unequal

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In 1947, newly minted Levittown, New York offered affordable homes, but there was just one condition: The development builder had written in his deeds that his 17,000 properties could only be sold to Caucasian people. PIX11's James Ford visits these once segregated communities and investigates the effect they still have on Black families today.

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