Curtis J. Holt Sr. was a social activist who challenged the imposition of a moral code through subsidies and other forms of state funding.
Holt was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina in 1920, one of eight children in a relatively poor family.
In 1963, he fell down an elevator shaft causing another injury which put him out of work permanently.
[1] In the mid-1960s he attempted to organize the tenants of Creighton Court, his residence, into an association, and was almost evicted for purported unreported income for cutting hair of his Boy Scout Team which he was a Cub Master at Fourth Baptist Church.
His abilities to organize poor whites in Richmond’s public housing was particularly effective in changing RRHA policy.