Ice Cream, Police, & Protestors Near The Myers Family's Home

View of a Good Humor ice cream vendor as he bicycles though the Dogwood Hollow neighborhood, past Pennsylvania State Police officers who had been called out to protect the Myers family, the area's first Black residents, from ongoing racist harassment by their neighbors (and others), Levittown, Pennsylvania, August 1957. Daisy and William Myers, and their children, were the first Black family to move into the otherwise all-white Levittown housing development, and their arrival was greeted with weeks of intimidation, including cross-burnings, vandalism, and verbal assault, though the Myers (with the help of some sympathetic neighbors) outlasted the harassment, eventually living there for another four years. (Photo by Jack Rosen/Getty Images)