The Rod Holt subject file collection, 1959-1997, bulk 1987-1998, contains files on various political and scientific subjects that were created and maintained by Rod Holt, who was Apple employee #5 as well as a socialist, political activist, and the founder of the Holt Labor Library in San Francisco, California. It contains newspaper clippings and photocopies, correspondence, notes, flyers, leaflets, notices, one audiocassette, one floppy disk, and other materials.

Frederick Rodney Holt was born in 1934 in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Ohio State University, where he majored in mathematics. While a graduate student at Ohio State University in 1958, he became involved with the free speech movement and was an editor of the Free Speech Press. In 1959, he joined the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) which he was a member of until he left to join Socialist Action with other dissenting members of the SWP in 1983. In 1992, Holt founded the Holt Labor Library in San Francisco, California, and in 2001 he joined the Socialist Workers Organization, which was formed by expelled members of Socialist Action in 1999.

4.33 Linear Feet 5 boxes

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Archives and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical materials and not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

There are no access restrictions except for Folder 36 in Box 4 which is restricted due to the presence of medical records.