Eldridge Cleaver
Details
Birth Date 31 Aug 1935
Place of Birth Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA
Personal Name Eldridge Cleaver
Also known as
- Eldridge Leroy Cleaver
- Leroy Eldridge Cleaver
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".