Eldridge Cleaver

Known for Acting

Eldridge Cleaver
Born August 31, 1935
Died May 1, 1998
Place of Birth Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA

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".