All the Way Home (1957) Housing Descrimination in America

An examination of what happens in a community when a Black family stops in front of a 'FOR SALE' sign.
​
Directed by Lee R. Bobker. Written by Murel Rukeyser. 

---

All the Way Home | When A Black Family Moves Next Door is a 1957 short film directed by well-known documentary film director Lee R. Bobker and produced by Nathan Zucker. Shot in black and white, the film was written by famed writer and poet Muriel Rukeyser. The film was produced by Dynamic Films. 
With a runtime of 28 minutes, the film depicts an elderly white family in the 1950s selling their home.

When the family's patriarch shows the home to an interested Black family, neighbors within the all-white community begin to gossip. The elderly white family became the target of harassment and threats by bigoted neighbors. 
​
This film is notable among a genre of films aimed at curbing white American anxiety and supremacist violence against racial desegregation and racial integration in the 1950s and 1960s. It serves as an earlier anti-discrimination narrative and racial sounding post in the spirit of the noted documentary, "Building the American Dream: Levittown, NY", which discussed Levittown, New York, the prototypical Post-World War II tract home suburb built in the late 1940s that excluded African Americans via restricted covenants and supremacist activism.