Curtis J. Holt, Sr.Rocky Mount, North Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia Union University, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Curtis J. Holt Sr. was a social activist who challenged the imposition of a moral code through subsidies and other forms of state funding. He is most notable for the changes he brought to local governance in Richmond, Virginia. Holt was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina in 1920, one of eight children in a relatively poor family. His farmer father died when he as aged 13 and his mother relocated the family to Richmond, Virginia in 1934, where Holt took a job to help support the family. In 1941 he was injured at a construction job at Virginia Union University (VUU, a historically black university), leaving him out of work for three years. In 1963, he fell down an elevator shaft causing another injury which put him out of work permanently. That forced him and his family into public housing, where he found poor living conditions and repressive conditions.