Mr. Johnnie Holmes Jr. has been a resident of Revolution Park for 41 years at the time of the interview. He lives directly across from the golf course and the former pool. Mr. Holmes is 81 years old and moved to Revolution Park in 1968 from Belmont, North Carolina. Revolution Park was already in the transition from a white neighborhood to a black neighborhood, and in the interview, Mr. Holmes discusses whites leaving because of blacks in the interview. When he moved with his wife and four children in 1968, Mr. Holmes worked as the head janitor at Olympic High School until his retirement in the mid-1990s. Mr. Holmes’ interview is important to the project because he witnessed the transition of Revolution Park from a mostly white to a black neighborhood. As a black man, he lived through the desegregation of the pool and the neighborhood, as well as white flight out of the community.
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