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.