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Harold Wright Cruse

Born: 03/08/1916 Petersburg, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Died: 03/25/2005
Parents: Hanson S. and Kate Cruse
Children: Patricia Cruse Maudesly
Address(es):
Last known address:
Ann Arbor, MI

Writings

Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
The Essential Harold Cruse: A Reader	Non Fiction	Adult	Palgrave	2002
Plural by Equal: A Critical Study of Blacks and Minorities and America's Plural Society	Non Fiction	Adult	New York : Morrow	1987
Nommo: An Anthology of Modern African and Black American Writing - Edited by William H. Robinson	Non Fiction	Adult	New York: Macmillan	1972
Cavalcade: Negro American Writing From 1760 to the Present - Edited by Arthur P. Davis and J. Saunders Redding	Non Fiction	Adult	New York: Houghton	1971
Rebellion or Revolution?	Non Fiction	Adult	New York : Morrow	1968
Black Fire: An Anthology of Black American Writing - Edited by LeRoi Jones and Larry Neal	Non Fiction	Adult	New York, Morrow, 1968/ Baltimore, MD : Black Classic Press, 2007	1968-2007
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual	Non Fiction	Adult	New York : Morrow/New York : New York Review Books	1967-2005
Other writings: - Contributor to Negro Digest and other periodicals	Non Fiction	Adult

What is the aim or goal of your writing: 2nd ed. says, "Being an aspiring writer plus university professor is a difficult chore."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name	Date
Michigan Authors, 2nd ed.	1980
Contemporary Authors - Contemporary Authors, volume(s) 77-80; Contemporary Authors - Obituary, volume(s) 237; 2005	1979-2005

Memberships:

Name	Date
Phi Kappa Phi

Education:

Degree	Institution	Location	Date
Graduated	Peabody High School	Petersburg, VA	1937
- College courses in Historical Research Methodology
Attended	Brooklyn Film Institute

Career:

Position	Organization	Location	Date
Visiting professor of history and Interim director of Center for Afro-American and African Studies - Within a decade, he had risen to full professor of history -- one of the first blacks without a college degree to receive tenure at a major university. Professor Emeritus - mid 1980s.	University of Michigan	Ann Arbor, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent	1968
	U. S. Army	served in Europe and north Africa	1941-1945
Film technician
Historical researcher
Journalist, Free-lance writer
Teacher of black history in free schools
Theater technician
Community social action organizer		New York City
Film and Drama critic	New York Labor Press
Lecturer	University of London, Harvard University, University of Wales, and Yale University
Co-Founder along with LeRoi Jones - Mid 1960s	Jones' Black Arts Theatre and School in New York City	Harlem

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