06/21/2026
Found a gem during our Sunday archive exploration.
This one’s been in the collection a while; the title alone was enough to grab it. But today we learned the author, Harold Cruse, was a Petersburg native. Born here in 1916, before he wrote The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual.
So much of our local history hides in plain sight—on bookshelves, in family photos, tucked in old newspaper clippings; waiting for someone to ask one more question.
Preservation is a choice about which stories get remembered.
What else is waiting to be rediscovered in Petersburg? 🖤
