Black Panthers
Person· Acting
Eldridge Cleaver
- Born
- August 31, 1935
- Died
- May 1, 1998
- From
- Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA
Also known as
Eldridge Leroy Cleaver · Leroy Eldridge Cleaver
Biography
Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was an American writer and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party. In 1968, Cleaver wrote Soul on Ice, a collection of essays that, at the time of its publication, was praised by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant and revealing".
