
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 31, 1935
Place of Birth
Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA
Died
May 1, 1998
Eldridge Cleaver
Biography
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".