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When Bill Myers, a black middle-class World War II veteran, moved his family into the New York suburb of Levittown—which was built for World War II veterans, but only white ones—the local postman started yelling this phrase, racial slur and all, as he made his rounds of the neighborhood. Soon, an angry mob formed on Myers’s doorstep, and even after it disbanded, Myers eventually left because he was frequently threatened in Levittown.
The postman’s message demonstrates the extraordinary degree of casual racism among white people in the 1950s and illustrates how it had immediate, profound effects—although any individual white person’s…