Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998
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Name (Latin)
Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998
Other forms of name
Cleaver, Leroy Eldridge, 1935-1998
Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-
Date of birth
1935-08-31
Date of death
1998-05-01
Place of birth
Wabbaseka, Ark.
Associated country
United States
Associate group
Black Panther Party
University of La Verne
Occupation
Civil rights workers
Essayists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Fuller form of name
Leroy Eldridge
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- African American National Biography, accessed December 12 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Cleaver, Eldridge; Leroy Eldridge Cleaver; Black Panther Party leader; born 31 August 1935 in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, United States; civil rights activist, essayist; was abandoned by his father at an early age; briefly converted to Roman Catholicism (1950); convicted on a felony charge of selling marijuana and sent to prison (1954); was arrested for the attempted rape and again sent to prison (1958); joined the Nation of Islam; was paroled in November 1966; joined the Panthers, becoming their minister of information; was involved in a Panther shoot-out in Oakland; the Panthers expelled him (1971); with the assistance of the French president, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, established legal residency in France (1974); was one of the best-known and most recognizable symbols of African-American rebellion in the 1960s; died in Los Angeles, California, United States (01 May 1998))
- His Soul on ice, 1967, c1968.
- ABC News online(Leroy Eldridge Cleaver, d. 5/1/98 at age 62)
- The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture, via WWW, July 31, 2013(Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998); one of the best-known and most recognizable symbols of African-American rebellion in the 1960s as a leader of the Black Panther Party; in the 1970s, he became a born-again Christian and later an active member of the Republican Party; Eldridge Cleaver was born on August 31, 1935 in Wabbaseka (Jefferson County), Arkansas; he died on May 1, 1998, in Pomona, California; Cleaver published several books, including the autobiographical titles Soul on Ice (1968) and Soul on Fire (1978), Eldridge Cleaver: Post-Prison Writings and Speeches (1969), and Eldridge Cleaver's Black Papers (1969); at the time of his death, he was employed by the University of La Verne in La Verne, California as a diversity consultant; Cleaver married Kathleen Neal in December 1967; they had two children and divorced in 1987)