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Series II. Topical Files, 1941-2007, inclusive

Extent

5.25 Linear Feet in 2 record cartons, 4 manuscript boxes, and 1 oversized box

Scope and Contents

This series contains ephemera, lecture notes, subject files, course syllabi, conference materials, research notes, research materials, and some correspondence relating to Cruse's activity as a public intellectual. This series also includes files on the Eldridge Cleaver Legal Defense Fund and on Robert Williams.

The file "African American and Civil Rights History -- Lynching Photograph" contains a graphic photograph depicting the death of an African American male murdered by the Klu Klux Klan in the 1980s.

Affirmative Action and Racism, 2001

Box: 6, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

African American and Civil Rights History, 2000-2004, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 11-12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

African American and Civil Rights History -- Lynching Photograph, 1980

Box: 6, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

African American Museum, 1977-1987, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

African Diaspora, 2000-2001, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

African World, 1981, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

African World Festival, 1983

Box: 6, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

AfroAmerican Communicator , 1979, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Afro Arts Theater, 1955 , 1957, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

American Festival of Negro Arts (AFNA), circa 1965-1968, undated, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

American Negro Arts Festival, 1943-1994, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

American Society of African Culture - "The Negro Writer and his Relationship to his Roots", 1959, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Antioch College, 1982

Box: 7, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

AMSAC (American Society for African Culture) Writers Conference - Notes, ca. late 1950s, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Association of American University Presses, 1968, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Association for the Study of Afro American Life and History, 1976-1988, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Banfield, William, 1999

Box: 7, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Black American Music Symposium (Cruse's Notes as Moderator), 1985, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Black Internationalism: Embracing an Economic Paradigm (Brown, Jeffrey M.), 2002

Box: 7, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Black Law Students Alliance - Discussion Notes, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Black Party: Founding Convention, 1980, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Black Scholar, 1969-1989, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Blacks in Predominantly White Colleges and Universities, The First National Think Tank On, 1976, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bubbling Brown Sugar, 1976, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

California State University, 1980, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Carleton College, 1979, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Castle, Irene, undated

Box: 7, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Caucus of Black Sociologists (Includes Lecture Notes), 1975, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Center for Afro American and African Studies, 1981-1986, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Center for Soviet and East Europe Studies, 1976-1986, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Citizens for Community Development, 1978 , 1980, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Clash of Civilizations, 2003

Box: 7, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cleveland State - Drimmer, 1979, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Conference Materials, 1973-2000, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 6-8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: Shared Tamiment 174, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Contract for Article on "Key Issues in the Afro-American Experience - Part Two", 1969, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cleaver, Eldridge (Legal Defense Fund, Other), 1969-1981, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cornell University, 1979, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Course Outlines - Afro American Studies (Course 201 and 202), ca.1969-1970, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Declaration of Black Intellectuals and Scholars in Support of the People's Struggle of West Papua New Guinea and East Timor Against Indonesian Colonialism, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dvorak, Anton, 2003-2004, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1980

Box: 7, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Freedom Now Party - Harlem, circa 1961-1963, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 8, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: Shared Tamiment 174, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Garvey, Marcus, 2003

Box: 8, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Harvard University - Alain Locke Symposium, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Harvard University - William Seymour Society Lectures, 1982-1985, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

History 572 - Course Description, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Independent Citizens Committee for the Development of Harlem and the Harlem Neighborhoods Association, Inc., 1965-1966, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Indiana, University of (re: Promotion of Herman Hudson, and Minority Studies Program, 1977-1978, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Institute for People Enterprises (Conference on Urban Choices for Survival), 1979, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Institute of Scientific Information, 1977, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

In these Times, 1979-1980, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

International Association for Cultural Freedom, 1971 , 1977, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Iowa, University of - Lecture (re: Paul Robeson), 1976-1977, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jazz, 2003

Box: 8, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jefferson School of Social Science - Marxism and the Negro Question, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 44 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Johnson, Cedric, 2007

Box: 8, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Macalester College - Hubert Humphrey Lecture Notes, 1979-1980, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Moore, Steven, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Morgan State University Lecture (Includes Notes), 1975-1978, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 47 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Moynihan Report, A Statement on the", undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 48 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA), 2000

Box: 8, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

National Conference for Arists -- International Conference Medal, 1985

Box: 8, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

National Conference of Artists - Lecture: Black Art in the 1930's, 1978, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 49 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

National Endowment for the Humanities - American Culture Panel, 1978-1979, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 50 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

National Urban League, 1975-1978, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 51 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Neel, Alice, 1974

Box: 8, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

New Dimensions , 1975, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 52 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

News of the Emeriti - Harold Cruse, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 53 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Olive Harvey College - Speech, 1977-1988, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Owens, Leslie - The Dismissal of, 1978, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pennsylvania, University of, 1986-1988, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Postcards of African Americans, undated

Box: 8, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Princeton University, 1976 , 1989, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Reparations, 2000

Box: 8, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sacramento Working Conference on the Black Political Party, 1980, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Separate but Equal" - International Institute of Flint (Lecture Notes), 1989-1990, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stanford University Speech, 1994, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Studies on the Left, 1962, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

SUNY Brockport - African and Afro-American Studies Department, 1991

Box: Shared Tamiment 174, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

United Negro and Allied Veterans of America - New York State Council, undated, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

University of Michigan, 1984-1985, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

University of Michigan -- Center for AfroAmerican and African Studies (CAAS), 2006-2007, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

University of Michigan -- Center for Afro-American and African Studies (CAAS) -- 35th Anniversary Conference in Honor of Harold Cruse, 2006

Box: 9, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: Shared Tamiment 174, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

University of Michigan -- Center for Afro-American and African Studies (CAAS) -- Porgy and Bess Project, 1991

Box: 9, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Virginia Commonwealth University, 1989-1990, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Wayne State University Humanities Conference, 1980, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Williams, Robert F., 1961-1986, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012