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...Harold Cruse, Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Michigan, launched the day of panel discussions on law, literature, and politics with a somber keynote address on the future state of Black intellectualism...
...Cruse, whose 1967 book "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual" prompted considerable scholarly debate on the role of Afro-American artist and scholars in America, told the group at the Law Scholars in America, told the group at the Law School's Pound Hall that a climate of "openness" in post-World War I Harlem enabled a great intellectual like W.E.B. Du Bois to communicate his ideas to ordinary people...
...Black community was open to all points of view. No matter who it was, he had an audience," Cruse said...
...historian Harold Cruse observed that "the Negro intellectual [was] a retarded child" whose thinking was still committed to mimicry and racial integration. Well, it is now 1985 and things have changed considerably--they're worse! Let us for example consider Harvard. Here we have one of the most prestigious collection of invisible minds north of Yale's Afro-American Cultural Center. Yet this obvious fact conceals a deeper truth. Unlike the principal protagonist of Ellison's novel Invisible Man, their invisibility is not due primarily to the refusal of others to see them. The reality is more tragic. They refuse...
...clubs are disputing the higher tax rates because they contend they are fraternities, Bloom said, adding that the matter of permanent residence is not the cruse of the issue. In a case now before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the Appelate Tax Board ruled that a nursing home is a commercial property despite the fact that people live there, he said...