- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1935-08-31 · 62 (at death)
- Died
- 1998-05-01
- Place of birth
- Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA
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".
