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Eldridge Cleaver

Aug 31, 1935 - May 01, 1998 (62 years old) in 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".

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Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
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Black Panthers
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1 P.M.
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A Huey P. Newton Story
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)
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All Power to the People!
Self (archive footage)
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The FBI's War on Black America
Self (archive footage)
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Leaving Cleaver
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A Decade of Struggle
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Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)

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