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Article: Former activist Cleaver dies
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 1, 1998
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POMONA, Calif. Eldridge Cleaver, the fiery Black Panther
information minister whose prison book Soul on Ice became a seminal
work of the Black Power movement, died today at age 62.
Mr. Cleaver, who after a shoot-out with police and exile in
Algeria returned to the United States and traversed the political
spectrum, died at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center. Spokeswoman
Leslie Porras declined to provide the cause of death or details about
his hospitalization, citing the family's request.
At times a convict, political candidate and author, Mr. Cleaver
was one of the original Black Panthers, formed in 1966 in Oakland by
Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
Later, he denounced the Black ...