Eldridge Cleaver
Actor
- Born
- 31 August 1935, Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA
- Died
- 1 May 1998
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".