Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
August 31, 1935
Died
May 1, 1998 (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".
