Eldridge Cleaver

August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998

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".