PHILADELPHIA—Growing up in Mount Airy, Alex Baker never knew why
his family had moved from the narrow, two-story brick row house
on Heather Road in Folcroft, where he was born.  Then, when he
was in eighth grade, Baker stumbled across a box in his basement
filled with newspaper clippings from 1963, the year before his
birth, when the Bakers became the first black family to move
into an all-white, working-class development in Folcroft called
Delmar Village.  He read for the first time about the angry mob
that swelled to 1,500 while his parents, Horace and Sarah Baker,
tried to enter their new home, how the rioters chanted "Two,
four, six, eight - we don't want to integrate!" and hurled eggs,
rocks, and a Molotov cocktail before the state police beat them
back. He learned about the words painted on their front wall:
"GO HOME N-S."  But what really got to Baker was a photo that
ran on the front pages of newspapers nationally capturing the
rage of three white youths, one leaning forward and screaming
with his but