Eldridge Cleaver
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: August 31, 1935
Day of Death: May 1, 1998 (63 years old)
Place of Birth: 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".