Where is Home is a project that highlights the history hidden in the process of gentrification. Gentrification does not always mean progress. Focusing on Freda Parker, we divide into the background of the everyday lives of Black folk in Frederick, MD during her childhood. How much change becomes erasure?
165 All Saints St. - Childhood home for Freda Parker, her 2 sisters, and her mother.
2022 - 165 All Saints St.
Freda Parker explaining the missing parts of her childhood home. - 2022
All Saints St. - 2022
Ms. Parker explaining what separation looked like for Frederick, MD back when she was a child.
Mullinix Park now in 2022 is integrated. Back in 1929 This was the Black folks park.
This is the barbershop where Ms. Parker's father was the owner and Head barber. The only Black Barbershop in Frederick at the time located on All Saints St.
Ms. Parker and her sister Ms. Junie tell stories of their family history.
Left to right: Ms. Parker's Father (Frederick Beaner), Mother (Daisy Parker), and Grandmother (LeAnn Orem)
Junie Parker
Creating the Family tree from memory and photo albums.
Where is Home 2023
Lincoln School - The only school for black child in Frederick. Didn't integrate until much later on.
Lincoln School - 2022
