levittown (pa.)

In 1955, Calvin's family relocates from Chicago to the all-white suburbs of Levittown, Pennsylvania, where they must pass for white to survive, but when Calvin begins to uncover dark secrets about the town and its inhabitants, he puts his family and their new home at risk.

Provides an account of events in 1957 when the Wechslers, a white, Jewish, communist family, secretly arranged for the Myerses, an African-American family, to buy a home in Levittown, Pennsylvania, a suburb designed to help people achieve the American dream, but which was planned for whites only.