We invite CSUDH students, faculty, staff, visiting researchers, and community members to explore primary sources in the Gerth Archives & Special Collections!
We are now accommodating in-person visitors Monday-Friday, 9:00am - 4:30pm.
LIB South 5039, 5th floor
The Holt Labor Library was a library in San Francisco, California from 1992 to 2019 that collected and made accessible primary and secondary source material related to labor history and the history of the radical left, with an emphasis on the activities of American Trotskyist political organizations. The Library also collected materials related to various anti-war movements, the women's movement, gay liberation, and the African American Civil Rights Movement, among other social justice causes. The Holt Labor Library closed in 2019, thereafter donating its holdings to the Gerth Archives and Special Collections at California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Black Panther Newspaper, Vol. 03, No. 2, May 4, 1969: Free Huey. Holt Labor Library periodical collection, HLL.2019.038
The Crusader, Vol. 5, No. 2, February 1964. Berta Green Langston papers, HLL.2019.002
"Why Do You Need a Union?" leaflet. Asher Harer papers, HLL.2019.011
"Jails Fill as Protests Rise” and other articles, The Student Voice, January 27, 1964. Nelson Blackstock papers, HLL.2019.016
"Guaranteed Wages for the Year Round." Washington, D.C. : Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), Department of Research and Education, 1947. Holt Labor Library pamphlet and subject file collection, HLL.2019.001
Letter to Asher Harer from Cesar Chavez, June 18, 1973. Asher Harer papers, HLL.2019.011
Bulletins, newsletters, correspondence, press releases, news articles, ephemera, and other materials that reflect the activities and statuses of various political organizations.
Personal papers collected by labor, political, and civil rights activists.
Materials accrued by the Holt Labor Library between 1992 and 2019 relating to labor union organizing, political activism, and various social justice and civil rights causes.