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(born 1935, Wabbaseka, near Little Rock, Ark., U.S.—died May 1, 1998, Pomona, Calif.) American black militant whose autobiographical volume Soul on Ice (1968) is a classic statement of black alienation in the United States. Cleaver was an inmate of correctional institutions in California almost constantly from his junior high school days until 1966 for crimes ranging from possession of marijuana to assault with intent to murder. While in prison, he supplemented his incomplete education with wide reading and became a follower of the Black Muslim separatist Malcolm X. He also began writing the essays that would eventually be collected in Soul on Ice, and whose publication in Ramparts magazine helped him win parole in 1966. After being paroled, Cleaver met Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, who had just founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland, Calif. Cleaver soon became the party's minister of information. The publication in 1968 of Soul on Ice, a collection of angry memoirs in which Cleaver traced his political evolution while denouncing American racism, made him a leading black radical spokesman. In April 1968, however, he was involved in a shoot-out in Oakland between Black Panthers and police that left one Panther dead and Cleaver and two police officers wounded. Faced with reimprisonment after the shoot-out, Cleaver jumped bail in November 1968 and fled first to Cuba and then to Algeria. Having broken with the Panthers in 1971 and grown disillusioned with communism, Cleaver returned voluntarily to the United States in 1975. The charges against him were dropped in 1979 when he pled guilty to assault in connection with the 1968 shoot-out and was put on five years' probation. In his later years Cleaver proclaimed himself a born-again Christian and a Republican, engaged in various business ventures, and struggled with an addiction to cocaine.


 
Eldridge Cleaver 1981 BYU Freedom Festival Speech
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Clip of Cleaver in 1967 while still a member of The Black Panther Party.
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Republican Eldridge Cleaver-Charlie Rose Interview Part 1
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The Black Power Mixtape
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of ...
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Republican Eldridge Cleaver Interview with Charlie Rose Part 2
Current President Obama shares some of the conservative views of Cleaver presented here, advocated over 20 years ago. Favors private over public enterprise, ...
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Eldridge Cleaver - The Conservative
Ex-Black Panther member Eldridge Cleaver shares his conservative views with Charlie Rose. Link: http://reason.com/archives/1986/02/01/an-interview-with-eldri...
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Off the Pigs! (1968) - Full
This is one of the first films made about the Panthers. It contains interviews with Party leaders Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver describing why the Party w...
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Black Liberation Theory: Eldridge Cleaver VS. Timothy Leary On Drug Use as Counter-Revolutionary
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Black Liberation Theory: Eldridge Cleaver on the Definition of PIGS
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Independent Lens | The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 | Clip 2 | PBS
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Fred Willoughby Introduces the Eldridge Cleaver Freedom Festival Speech
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Black Liberation Theory: Eldridge Cleaver on Limitations of Cultural Nationalism & Racial Dogma
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Eldridge Cleaver returns to the U.S.
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Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
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MC5 - Im Mad Like Eldridge Cleaver - Part 1
Ice Pick Slim "EP" Version - Live from The Grand sometime in 1968.
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Black Liberation Theory: Eldridge Cleaver on Emancipatory Violence vs. Oppressive Violence
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Hot Docs 2011 Trailers: THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE: 1967-1975
Forgotten footage shot by Swedish journalists captures the vital urgency of the 60's Black Power Movement in America. Featuring Stokely Carmichael, Huey P. N...
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Will the Real Eldridge Cleaver Please Stand Up? (Pt. 1)
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Ahmad Eldridge Cleaver Morehouse College Lecture 2006
A lecture sponsored by the Learning Center at Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA on 9 November 2006. Helped students and faculty to Gain a much Better Understa...
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