Article: A chat with former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver.(Originated from The Orange County Register)

The flames, it seemed at the time, would burn forever. And so even now, you look for the fire in Eldridge Cleaver's eyes.

You look for the torch that set ablaze Oakland and Watts and Detroit and Newark under the salute of black fists above faces that would become famous from FBI posters.

The face of the black militant movement was the face of Huey Newton and Bobby Seale _ the Black Panther Party _ and their minister of information, Eldridge Cleaver.

In 1967, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called the Black Panthers ``the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.''

The leather-jacketed, beret-wearing Panthers were ...

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