New Jersey’s Willingboro Township has renamed the Levitt Parkway as Veterans Parkway in a tribute to those who served in the nation’s military and rebuking a piece of institutional racism in the township’s past. On Friday morning, the township held a renaming ceremony for the parkway. Originally, the parkway was named after developer William J. Levitt, who built and founded a community within Willingboro’s bounds and named it Levittown, after himself. Levitt and the community’s private developers envisioned Levittown as an all-white enclave and developers refused to sell homes to Black familie…
