Eldridge Cleaver (1935 - 1998)

Born:
August 31, 1935 in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA

Died:
May 1, 1998(age 62)

About:
Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was an American writer and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party. In 1968, Cleaver wrote Soul on Ice, a collection of essays that, at the time of its publication, was praised by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant and revealing".