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Article: SYMBOL OF BLACK REBELLION ELDRIDGE CLEAVER DIES AT 62.(News)(Obituary)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- May 2, 1998
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Eldridge Cleaver, whose searing prison memoir ``Soul on Ice'' and leadership in the Black Panther Party made him a symbol of black rebellion in the turbulent 1960s, died yesterday in Pomona, Calif., at the age of 62.
At the request of his family, Pomona Valley Hospital Center did not release the cause of death or the reason Cleaver was in the hospital.
In the black leather coat and beret the Panthers wore as a uniform, Cleaver was a tall, bearded, articulate figure who mesmerized his radical audiences with his fierce energy, intellect and often bitter humor.
``You're either part of the problem or part of the solution,'' he challenged, in one of ...