Eldridge Cleaver

Born 1935-08-31 · Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA

Died 1998-05-01

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".