A Look Into American History: Crisis in Levittown (1957)

This brief documentary serves as a case example of the ignorance, fear, and power that fuels racism, and the ugliness of the notion of white supremacy.

What connections can you make between the commentary in this video during that time period and the state of race relations today socially, educationally, politically, economically, and otherwise?

Are there things being “grappled with” today that you feel may sound the way this video sounds in the next 50 years?

Are there things being “grappled with” today that you feel sounds the way this video sounds right now?

Ubuntu,

From Aspiring Humanitarian, Relando Thompkins, MSW, LLMSW

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