Series III: Writings, 1940-2005, inclusive
Extent
8.02 Linear Feet in 2 record cartons, 2 half manuscript boxes, 7 manuscript boxes, 1 flat box, and 1 oversized flat box
Scope and Contents
This series contains published and unpublished articles, as well as drafts of various written works; copies of plays and musicals written by Cruse; book and theater reviews; essays about Harold Cruse and copies of his obituaries; and an almost complete typescript of the Crisis of the Negro Intellectual.
"Aesthetic Theory of American Negritude", undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Afro American Communicator, 1979, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"An Afro-American's Cultural Views", undated
Box: 9, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Afro American Youth Cultural Conference, 1965, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"American Negritude", undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"American Negritude" - Exploratory Philosophical Notes - Part II, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The American Negro and the Cuban Revolution", undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The American Negro Manifesto on Cultural Revolution", undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Articles about Harold Cruse, 1997-2005, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 4-5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: Shared Tamiment 174, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Articles about Harold Cruse -- Obituaries, 2005
Box: 9, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: Shared Tamiment 174, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Article on: Negro in the Theater, 1951, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Assimilation in American Life" (Review by Cruse), 1964, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Avant-Propos (Essay in French), undated
Box: 9, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Baldwin, James - Articles About, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Battle of Montreal" - African Heritage Studies Association, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Behind the Black Power Movement", undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Black Anti-Semitism", undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Black Anti-Semitism" - Notes on, 1985-1986, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Black Bourgeois", undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Black Political Process - Myth or Reality - A Theoretical Analysis", 1978, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Black Intellectuals and Others - A Critical Survey" (Draft), undated
Box: 9, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black Intellectuals and the Racial Divide, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 1-2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Blacks and the Idea of Revolution, undated
Box: 10, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Blacks and the Red, 1995
Box: 10, Folder: 4-5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Black Studies: Interpretation, Methodology, and the Relationship to Social Movements", 1971
Box: 3, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 10, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Bohemia Revisited", undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Book Review by Cruse of Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960's Civil Rights Movement, 1987, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Book Review by Cruse of Introduction to Black Studies, by Maulana Karenga, 1982, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Book Reviews by Cruse (Various), 1950-1964, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Changing Face" (Drafts), 1994
Box: 10, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Charles Riley and New Negro Renaissance", undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"A Chess Manual for the 'Potzers' by the Master Monsieur Fred Duval" - As Told by Cruse, ca. late 1950s-early 1960s, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Cleaver, Eldridge: The Fire this Time? (Review of) by Cruse, 1969, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Contemporary Dialectics", ca.1963, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Creative and Performing Arts and the Afro-American Struggle for Identity and Credibility, 1974
Box: 10, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Creative and Performing Arts and the Struggle for Identity and Credibility", undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 11, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 40-43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Crisis of the Negro Intellectual - "Black Nationalism and American Socialism" (by Eugene Genovese) , 1968, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 44 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Crisis of the Negro Intellectual - Critique (by Bob Higgins) , 1978, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Crisis of the Negro Intellectual -- Drafts, undated
Box: 11, Folder: 2-3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Crisis of the Negro Intellectual - Twentieth Anniversary , 1987, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Crisis of the Negro Intellectual -- Xerox Copy, undated
Box: 11, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Cuba, Marxism, Nationalism, and the American Negro", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Cuba and the North American Negro", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Cuba and the North American Negro: A Study in Two Revolutionary Perspectives", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Culture and the Negro Question" - Review by Cruse, undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Cultural Identity and the Afro American", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Death of White Sociology, Outline for", 1975, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Delta Rose", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Destiny of the Black Elites, undated
Box: 11, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Destiny of the Black Elites -- Handwritten Draft, undated
Box: 11, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Destiny of the Black Elites and Black Intellectuals and Others (Drafts), undated
Box: 12, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Dialects of Race and Culture: The Collected Essays of Harold Cruse, undated
Box: 12, Folder: 2-3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Dispatches from the Ebony Tower (Draft), 1999
Box: 12, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Drafts of Essays, undated
Box: 12, Folder: 5-7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 13, Folder: 1-3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Economics of Black Nationalism", undated
Box: 13, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Education of a Rebel", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 8-8I (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Fire This Time?", 2003
Box: 13, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Force and Violence : from Monroe to Watts", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"From Shibe Park to Yankee Stadium", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"George Capdeville's Ancestry", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Green Pastures: Twenty Years Ago and Today", 1951
Box: 13, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Handwritten Notes, undated
Box: 13, Folder: 7-8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 14, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Harold W. Cruse: The Man and His Works - A Selected Bibliography" (JoAnn Hall), undated
Box: 14, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Historical Roots of American Social Change", 1971
Box: 14, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Historical Roots of Social Change and Social Theory", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Historical Roots of Social Change and Social Theory" (Handwritten), undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The House He Once Lived in", 1950, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The House He Used to Live in", 1949, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Intellectuals and Force and Violence", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Interludes with Duke Ellington", ca.1982-1985, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 14, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Interview with Harold Cruse (Transcript), 2000
Box: 14, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
A Lady of Consequence, 1962
Box: 14, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
London Diary, 1969-1970, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Marxism and Negritude", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Marxism and Negritude Part Three", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Marxism and the Negro", undated
Box: 14, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Marxism and Negro Literature", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Marxism and the Negro Question", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Memoirs of a Self-Taught Journalist", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
More Than Just a Politicians: Notes on the Life and Times of Harold Cruse (Van Gosse), 2000, 2004, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 8-9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"My Jewish Problem and Theirs", 1969, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Negro Culture: Heritage and Weapon (Review by Cruse) , undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"A Negro Looks at Cuba", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Negro Nationalism's New Wave", undated
Box: 14, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Negro Playwright", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Negro Soldier Sequences Censored in 'Call Me Mister'", 1951
Box: 14, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Negro Writer - Disarmed, Dis[en]franchised, Disoriented", 1967, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The New Afro Americanism", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The New Negro History of John Hope Franklin", 1980 , 1987, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The New Negro History of John Hope Franklin - Promise and Progress", undated
Box: 14, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebooks / Journals (2), undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notes: Robeson book, undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 32a (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Of Marms and Maids, 1963
Box: 14, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"On Explaining Twentieth Century Negro History", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"On Robert Brustein's Theater Visions", 1979, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Plural But Equal - Review of , 1987, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Plural but Equal, 1990, 1995, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Politics of Negro Business", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"A Preface to Leadership", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Problems in Black Political Philosophy - Exploratory Paper" (Delivered at Morgan State University), 1978, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Proposal for a Collected Edition of the Essays", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Purblind Slant of Africa", 1951
Box: 14, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Race and Bohemians in Greenwich Village", 1960, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Race Riots and Remedies", 1964, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Rebellion or Revolution - Review of , undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Revolutionary Nationalism and the Afro-American", undated
Box: 14, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Roots of Black Nationalism", undated
Box: 14, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Salute to Josephine Baker, Magnificent Negro Artist", 1951
Box: 15, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Simply Heavenly and Stella Holt - A Viewpoint , undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Sociology of Afro Americanism", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 44 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Teaching and Sharing the Humanities: A College for Human Services Value Conference, 1978, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Three Faces West" - A Western Film Scenario (by Cruse), undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Towards the Americal Social Theory: The Dialectics of Racial Integration", undated
Box: 15, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled Essays, Poems, and Plays, undated
Box: 15, Folder: 3-5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled Typescript - "Despite many new features of the present day Negro rebellion, this rebellion has its roots in the accumulated experiences of the past fifty years...", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 47 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled Typescript - re: CAUSA and Negroes (pp 173-240), undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 48 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled Typescript - "'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual' was first published...", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 49 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled Typescript - re: Freedom Now Party, William Worthy, etc., undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 50 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled Typescript - "In addition, we are being told by the white left...", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 51 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled Typescript - "In 1940, in one of my first acts in the pursuit of becoming a more 'social' being...", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 52 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled Typescript - "In 1964, the special Freedom ways Harlem issue was enlarged...", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 53 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled Typescript - "It was June in Italy, 1944, a languorous summer's day, when Juddie Jones, Negro truck driver, US Army, returned...", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 54 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled Typescripts - Miscellaneous, undated, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled Typescript - re: "Marxism and the Negro", undated, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled Typescript - "The nearest living contact I have ever had with French culture was in North Africa during World War Two...", undated, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled Typescript - "When the Socialist Workers Party (Trotskyist) announced in New York on January 14 that it had nominated a Negro...", undated, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Village Voice Editorial - "Reading Michael Harrington's report on the Vancouver meeting...", undated, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"W.E.B. DuBois and Black History", 2003
Box: 15, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"What is a Program", undated, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"What is Nationalism", undated, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Why an Afro American Cultural Philosophy is Necessary Today", undated, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Where the Hummingbird Flies" - A Critique, undated, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
