The Holly Park neighborhood of Seattle was built in the 1940s to house defense workers and veterans, but in the 1950s, it was converted into public housing under the Seattle Housing Authority (SHA). During its first few decades, Holly Park housed mostly Whites and some African Americans. By the early 1990s, 33% of Holly Park was African American and 49% other minorities. SHA decided in 1995 to rebuild Holly Park as a mixed-income neighborhood, with the resulting neighborhood officially named New Holly.

This 1993 photo shows Edwin Wea, program manager of the Black Family Center in Holly Park, helping Angel Rodgers, 9, learn math using flash cards.

Caption information source: "The Place We Called Holly Park -- Stories From A Community That Soon Will Be No More" by Carina A. Del Rosario, Seattle Times, July 27, 1997, retrieved at http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19970727&slug=2551529.
Caption information also derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.