Harold Cruse Papers Bulk, 1970-1985 1943-1994, (Bulk 1970-1985)

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Harold Cruse Papers Bulk, 1970-1985 1943-1994, (Bulk 1970-1985)

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Harold Cruse was born in 1916 in Petersburg, VA and is an African American author and professor best known for his (1967), a Marxist-nationalist critique of the Communist movement and an endorsement of an autonomous and revolutionary Black culture. He joined the Communist Party in 1947 (remaining a member for some seven years) and contributed to its newspaper, the . In the late 1960s, Cruse joined the faculty of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and helped found their Center for Afro-American and African Studies. The collection includes articles (published and unpublished), correspondence from, among others, John Conyers, Langston Hughes, Manning Marable, and Wole Soyinka; also included is ephemera, lecture notes, and correspondence relating to the Eldridge Cleaver Legal Defense Fund, and Robert Williams. Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Daily Worker

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