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S01E08: The House That Levitt Built: America in the 1950s; Suburbs, Rock and Roll, a Broken Senator, and the Courage That Cracked the System
HIS 223 (Week 6)
Episode Title:
The House That Levitt Built: America in the 1950s; Suburbs, Rock and Roll, a Broken Senator, and the Courage That Cracked the System
Episode Description:
The 1950s built more houses, highways, televisions, and babies than any decade before it — and did it while a Black family could be run out of a brand-new suburb by a mob with burning crosses. This episode moves through the real, human stories of the decade: Levittown's assembly-line houses and the racial exclusion built into their deeds, the Memphis recording session that launched rock and roll, the…
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