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Article: Cleaver, Eldridge 1935-
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CLEAVER, ELDRIDGE 1935-
Minister of information, black pantherparty, 1966-1971
The author of
Soul on Ice
(1968), a prison autobiography that has been called second only to the
Autobiography of Malcolm X
(1965) in its influence on young black militants, Cleaver was a leading spokesman for the Black Panther Party, notable for his willingness to recruit white radicals to the black nationalist cause.
Background
Born in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, a small town near Little Rock, Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was raised in Phoenix and the Watts section of Los Angeles. Beginning in the early 1950s he was convicted on a variety of marijuana-related charges and spent time in reformatories and prisons. In 1957 ...
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