Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                              #3551
                      ERWIN A. HOLT PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Erwin Allen Holt (1873-1961), textile executive of
           Burlington, N.C.
               Papers relating to Holt's concerns about racial
           segregation, Jewish control of the federal government,
           strict interpretation of the Constitution, the Status
           of Forces Agreement, communism in the U.S., and
           Hawaiian statehood.  Included is correspondence about
           preventing racial integration, and broadsides,
           leaflets, and circulars issued by various right-wing
           organizations of which Holt was a member.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Anticommunist movements--North Carolina.
   Antisemitism--North Carolina--History--20th century.
   Hawaii--History--1959- .
   Holt, Erwin Allen, 1873-1961.
   North Carolina--Race relations--20th century.
   Racism--North Carolina--History--20th century.
   Segregation--United States--History--20th century.
   Statehood (American politics).
   United States--Armed Forces--Foreign countries.
   United States--Constitutional law--History--20th century.
   United States--History--1953-1961.
   White supremacy movements--North Carolina--History--20th
       century.

Size:  About 480 items (1.0 feet).

Provenance:    Received from the North Carolina Collection, 25
               September 1961.  The North Carolina Collection    
               had received this material and related printed
               items (retained in the North Carolina Collection)
               from the Holt estate earlier in 1961.

Access:  No restrictions.

Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
           their descendants, as stipulated by United States
           copyright law.

Table of Contents:
       Description
       Shelf List

                           DESCRIPTION

   Erwin A. Holt was a member of the firm of Lawrence S. Holt &
Sons, cotton mill owners.  He was a son of Lawrence S. Holt
(1851-1937) and Margaret Lock Erwin Holt (1852-1918), and a
grandson of Edwin Michael Holt (1807-1884).

   Arrangement is by organization, largely as established by
Holt, then chronological.  The American Nationalist (folders
1-10) was an organization, based in Inglewood, Cal., and headed
by Frank L. Britton, that published a journal also called The
American Nationalist.  Items include material relating to
problems of "conservative" Americans, including lack of funds to
support organizations, setbacks in the courts, and the growing
probability of Hawaiian
statehood.

   The Grass Roots League, Inc. (folders 11-15) directed by
Stanley F. Morse, was headquartered in Charleston, S.C.  Items
include a number of form letters and handwritten letters from
Morse to Holt, as well as ephemera supporting conservative causes
such as States' rights, segregation, and the anti-Communism
movement.

   The Patriots of North Carolina, Inc. (folders 16-18) was under
the leadership of Samuel Horace McCall (b. 1918), former mayor of
Troy, N.C., and Wesley Critz George (b. 1888), professor of
anatomy, at UNC-Chapel Hill.  Material includes correspondence
concerning meetings of organizations, distribution of literature,
and segregation.  There is also one photograph (P-3551/1).

   Papers relating to the North Carolina Defenders of States'
Rights, Inc. (folders 19-26) are more numerous than those for the
other organizations.  Much of the material consists of copies of 
letters from Sterling Rawlinson Booth, Jr., of Raleigh, and Earle
Le Baron, faculty member of East Carolina College, to public
officials, Holt, and the membership.  Common topics are
"liberals" at ECC and UNC, segregation, and Communism.

   Holt had arranged the last set of items (folders 27-30) as
"segregation problem and clippings."  Topics include segregation
of schools, the U. S. Army, and Communist influences.  The
material is from a variety of organizations from around the
country.

American Nationalist
Folder  1.     1953-1956     (11 items)
        2.     1957-1960     (23 items)
        3-10.  Undated       (124 items)

Grass Roots League
Folder  11.    1952,1955     (14 items)
        12.    1956-1957     (25 items)
        13.    1958          (19 items)
        14.    1959          (20 items)
        15.    1960-1961, Undated   (17 items)

Patriots of North Carolina 
Folder  16.    1955          (14 items)
        17.    1956-1957,1959 (12 items)
        18.    Undated       (8 items)

Defenders of States Rights
Folder  19.    1954, 1956-1958  (13 items)
        20-22. 1959          (59 items)
        23.    1960          (21 items)
        24.    1961          (10 items)
        25-26. Undated       (35 items)

Other Materials
Folder  27.    1935,1950, 1954  (7 items)
        28-30. 1955          (56 items)
        31.    1956-1960, 1968, Undated  (20 items)

                           SHELF LIST

Box 1.    (folders 1-16)
    2.    (folders 17-31)

Items Separated
       P-3351/1