Commemorating tragedy to promote healing in one Delaware County community. Folcroft Borough honored the town’s first Black family with a historical marker Saturday.
The Baker family moved into the borough nearly 60 years to the day, but they were driven out by racism and hate."They were throwing Molotov cocktails and stones and just trying to destroy their move into this neighborhood," Dr. Terry Baker-Stephens Frelix said.
"Looking back, it’s a time of reconciliation. It’s a time for everyone to heal and come together and realize that was a stain. A blot at that period of time and now we need to come together and work together and make sure that doesn’t happen to any other family," Dr. Baker-Stephens Frelix remarked. "It’s important to remember it for what it was, not for what other people might envision. Some people might rather forget this moment happened, but Folcroft was not a diverse community. It was effectively segregated, if not by law, then in reality. Today, it’s a diverse, vibrant community and proud we’re not like that," Borough manager, Andrew Hayman, stated.
Alyia Anthony moved into the neighborhood with her family seven years ago. As a family of color, she was greeted with a much different welcome than the Bakers and is thankful for that but became emotional hearing the Bakers story.
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