Eldridge Cleaver

🎬 Actor

Born

31 August 1935 (90)

Place of Birth

Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA

Also known as

Eldridge Leroy Cleaver, Leroy 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".