Eldridge Cleaver

Born: 31st of August 1935

Died: 1st of May 1998 (aged 62)

Biography:
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".