Eldridge Cleaver

Personal Info

Birthday

August 31, 1935

Day of Death

1998-05-01

(62 years old)

Place of Birth

Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA

Also Known As

Eldridge Leroy Cleaver

Leroy Eldridge Cleaver

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".

Known For

Filmography

2015
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
as Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)
2001
A Huey P. Newton Story
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1999
Leaving Cleaver
as Self
1996
All Power to the People!
as Self (archive footage)
1990
The FBI's War on Black America
as Self (archive footage)
1980
A Decade of Struggle
as Self
1972
Malcolm X
as Self (archive footage)
1971
1 P.M.
as Self
1970
Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther
as Self
1968
Black Panthers
as Self