Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver

Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998) 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". Cleaver stated in Soul on Ice: "If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America."Cleaver went on to become a prominent member of the Black Panthers, having the titles Minister of Information and Head of the International Section of the Panthers, while a fugitive from the United States criminal justice system in Cuba and Algeria. Cleaver was convicted of a series of crimes including burglary, assault, rape, and attempted murder and eventually served time in Folsom and San Quentin prisons until being released on parole in 1968. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eldridge Cleaver has received more than 1,902,790 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Eldridge Cleaver is the 5,416th most popular writer (down from 4,869th in 2019), the 8,745th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,903rd in 2019) and the 696th most popular American Writer.