Kyle Green

portrait: singles

Portrait of Alphonzo Holland Sr., age 89, who attended the Harrison School while Lucy Addison was principal. Holland is pictured walking by remains of the Kieser Music Store on 1st Street NW in Roanoke, Virginia. Holland used to walk past this store on his way to his first job, a janitor for Norfolk & Western making 38 cents an hour, which he started in 1938. Talking about the historic "Negro" (Holland's words...he doesn't like the term African American) area of Roanoke, much of which has been moved or is in disrepair, "Time marches on...you have to march with it or you get left behind". Alphonzo (Al) Holland Sr., 89, recalls Lucy Addison calling the children into school from the top of the Harrison School steps: "She'd ring a bell and say, "Come children! Come children!" Black teachers "imparted that knowledge to us that you did well, and then you helped lift up the people coming behind you."
Portrait of Alphonzo Holland Sr., age 89, who attended the Harrison School while Lucy Addison was principal. Holland is pictured walking by remains of the Kieser Music Store on 1st Street NW in Roanoke, Virginia. Holland used to walk past this store on his way to his first job, a janitor for Norfolk & Western making 38 cents an hour, which he started in 1938. Talking about the historic "Negro" (Holland's words...he doesn't like the term African American) area of Roanoke, much of which has been moved or is in disrepair, "Time marches on...you have to march with it or you get left behind". Alphonzo (Al) Holland Sr., 89, recalls Lucy Addison calling the children into school from the top of the Harrison School steps: "She'd ring a bell and say, "Come children! Come children!" Black teachers "imparted that knowledge to us that you did well, and then you helped lift up the people coming behind you."