Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 - May 1, 1998) was an author and a prominent American civil rights leader who began as a dominant member of the Black Panther Party. Born in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, Cleaver's family moved to Phoenix and then to Los Angeles. As a teenager he was involved in petty crime, and in 1957 was convicted of assault with intent to murder. While in prison, he wrote a book of essays, "Soul on Ice", … Wikipedia
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An Interview with Eldridge CleaverEldridge Cleaver was interviewed at his Berkeley apartment by REASON editors Bill Kauffman and Lynn Scarlett. reason.com/8602/fe.ls.cleaver.shtml
Cleaver died at 6:20 a.m. at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center in suburban Los Angeles. Citing a family request for privacy, hospital spokeswoman Leslie Porras declined to provide a cause of death or any details about his hospitalization. Former col www.cnn.com/US/9805/01/cleaver.late.obit/
Eldridge Cleaver was interviewed at his Berkeley apartment by REASON editors Bill Kauffman and Lynn Scarlett . ... The Black Panthers scared the hell out of America in the 1960s. Emerging from the ghettos of Oakland, they scorned the establishment bla www.reason.com/news/show/29321.html
Eldridge Cleaver , the son of a nightclub piano player, was born in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, in 1935. The family later moved to Los Angeles . As a teenager he was sent to reform school for stealing a bicycle and selling marijuana. ... Cleaver was release www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcleaver.htm
Minister of information for the Black Panther Party, 1960's. Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 112-115. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. www.imdb.com/name/nm0165897/
Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 - May 1, 1998) was an author, and a prominent American civil rights leader and activist, beginning as prominent member of the Black Panther Party. Born in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, Cleaver's family moved to Phoenix and then t shop.emancipation2000.com/products/eldridge-cleaver-1260
Quotes by Eldridge Cleaver
"History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood."
"The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books."
"If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America"
"I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare."
