Harold Cruse

Harold Cruse
Born(1916-03-08)March 8, 1916
DiedMarch 26, 2005(2005-03-26) (aged 89)
Alma materCity College of New York (did not graduate)
OccupationAcademic
EmployerUniversity of Michigan
Known forThe Crisis of the Negro Intellectual

Harold Wright Cruse (March 8, 1916 March 26, 2005) was an American academic who was a social critic and teacher of African American studies at the University of Michigan until the mid-1980s. The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) is his best-known book.