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  Eldridge Cleaver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1975, Cleaver modeled anatomically fitted men's pants he designed featuring a "Cleaver sleeve" which was a penis sheath that was basically a sock protruding from the front of a pair of pants (see "Eldridge Cleaver Models his hot new pants" in Rolling Stone issue 197 dated October 9, 1975).
Cleaver was supported by regular stipends from the Republic of North Vietnam, with which the USA was then at war.
Cleaver died of prostate cancer in Pomona, California in 1998 at the age of 62, and is interred in the Mountain View Cemetery, Altadena, California.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eldridge_Cleaver   (669 words)

  
 Kathleen Cleaver
Although Kathleen Neal Cleaver first came to the attention of the public because of her relationship with Eldridge Cleaver and the Black Panther Party, she has many accomplishments outside of her relationship with Cleaver for which she is well known.
As a result of the confrontation, Eldridge Cleaver was charged with parole violationsóhe had been on parole since November 1966 for a 1958 conviction for assault with intent to killóand scheduled to report to the parole board to be returned to prison on November 27, 1968.
Eldridge Cleaver's legal situation was finally settled in 1980 when he agreed to plead guilty to three counts of assault in return for having the charge of attempted murder dropped.
www.edwardsly.com /cleaverk.htm   (1365 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Politics
Cleaver, who had served almost 12 years in prison on a variety of assault, drug and theft charges, was author of the best-selling "Soul on Ice," a collection of essays about his own life and the fate of fl people in the United States, written while he was in jail in California.
Cleaver, the son of a nightclub piano player and a schoolteacher, was born in Wabbaseka, Ark. He moved as a child to Phoenix and later to Los Angeles.
Cleaver was arrested and convicted of assault with intent to murder.
washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/campaigns/junkie/links/cleaver.htm   (1169 words)

  
 A Huey P. Newton Story - People - Eldridge Cleaver | PBS
Cleaver is wounded during a shootout with police [Bobby Hutton is killed] and is returned to prison on a parole violation.
Cleaver is released from Vacaville prison for the parole violation.
Cleaver disappears; he was to turn himself in to complete his 1958 assault sentence; flees with wife Kathleen to Cuba, Paris and Algeria.
www.pbs.org /hueypnewton/people/people_cleaver.html   (307 words)

  
 CNN - 'He was a symbol': Eldridge Cleaver dies at 62 - May 1, 1998
Cleaver was born on August 31, 1935, in Wabbaseka, Arkansas.
Cleaver became a born-again Christian, embraced anti-communism and made an unsuccessful run for the GOP nomination for a Senate seat in California.
In 1994, Cleaver almost died from a blow to the head administered by a fellow addict.
www.cnn.com /US/9805/01/cleaver.late.obit   (946 words)

  
 Eldridge Cleaver
Eldridge Cleaver, the son of a nightclub piano player, was born in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, in 1935.
Eldridge told me that it was all the staff could do to explain how senseless it was to the hundreds of people who rushed to our office clamoring for guns to vent their rage in a disorganized manner.
Eldridge Cleaver, the 1960s Black Panther activist and fugitive who later swung to the other side of the political spectrum to become a Republican, died Friday at the age of 62.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAcleaver.htm   (2093 words)

  
 Latter-day Saint (Mormon) character in "Panther" (1997) (Eldridge Cleaver, Latter-day Saint)
Eldridge Cleaver was one of the leaders of the Black Panther movement and is a character in the movie "Panther." Eldridge Cleaver is played by actor Anthony Griffith in the movie.
Eldridge Cleaver was one of the first members of the Black Pather Party; a radical pro-Marxist Black Nationalist group founded in Oakland, California, in the mid-1960s by Bobby Seale and Huey Lewis.
Cleaver's address to our group of 200 or 300 persons dealt with his conversion story and focused little on his days in Oakland, except to say that in his travels around the world he finally realized that America was probably the least racist country in the world and he felt entirely used by the Communists.
www.ldsfilm.com /movies/Panther.html   (2587 words)

  
 Ex-Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver dies
Cleaver sprang to prominence as spokesman for the Panthers, a group famous for its armed confrontations with police.
Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was born Aug. 31, 1935, in Wabbaseka, Arkansas.
Cleaver began to write in jail and when he was freed on parole in November 1966, he got a job as a reporter with the left-wing magazine Ramparts in San Francisco.
www.christusrex.org /www2/fcf/cleaver5298.html   (677 words)

  
 The UmBlog: Eldridge Cleaver
On April 6, 1968, Cleaver participated in a shootout with Oakland police—'60s legend has it that three carloads of Panthers were ambushed while Cleaver was urinating in a side street—in which 17-year-old Black Panther Bobby Hutton was killed.
Eldridge Cleaver lives today in a modest apartment in Berkeley, California, where he is hard at work writing a history of the '60s.
Tupac was a "cub." Cleaver says, "I regret the way that the Party was repressed because it left a lot of unfinished business because we had planned to make a transition to the political arena and we would have been able to transmute that violence and that legacy into legitimate and peaceful channels.
umbl0g.blogspot.com /2006/02/eldridge-cleaver.html   (747 words)

  
 Eldridge Cleaver interview
CLEAVER: I think it is. I think that it is possible for the capitalist system to have a program of full employment, but we have a spiritual and moral problem in America.
CLEAVER: This is an a historical perspective because they do not understand that Tupac is a child of Huey Newton and Malcolm X. That Tupac would not have been who he was had he not been born of parents who followed Huey Newton.
CLEAVER: It was a good thing and like all things, there was good and bad, but nothing like what this nitwit, Horowitz, is talking about because that is not where we were coming from.
leeblockman.tripod.com /blackpantherparty/id5.html   (6080 words)

  
 frontline: the two nations of black america: interview with eldridge cleaver
CLEAVER: When these riots started all over the country in the aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King -- I think he got killed on the fourth of April.
CLEAVER: I think it was a success it terms of the goals that it espoused.
CLEAVER: I think the only way we could have won is that the American people would have revolted against the status quo.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/interviews/ecleaver.html   (2210 words)

  
 Eldridge Cleaver and Soul on Ice (Amy S.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cleaver was jailed numerous times on charges such as rape, possession of narcotics, and assault with intent to kill.
Cleaver and the Panthers were involved in a police shootout in 1968 that left Bobby Hutton, a seventeen-year-old Panther, dead; Cleaver and two police officers were wounded.
Eldridge Cleaver made his way back to the United States in 1975.
www.gfsnet.org /msweb/sixties/cleaver_soul.htm   (396 words)

  
 Be Aware - Eldridge Cleaver
Eldridge Cleaver was born Leroy Eldridge Cleaver on August 31st 1935 in Wabaseka, Arkansas.
Eldridge was no stranger to trouble with the law and this began in his teens.
Eldridge split from the BPP in 1971 and formed his own version of the organisation.
www.daintycrew.com /cleaver.htm   (497 words)

  
 Eldridge Cleaver
Eldridge Cleaver helped found the militant group the Black Panthers in 1966 and became famously controversial as the group's outspoken Minister of Information.
The same year he was wounded in a Panther shootout with Oakland police; Cleaver jumped bail, fled to Algeria and lived in exile there and in Paris.
Eldridge Cleaver - Eldridge Cleaver Age: 62 writer and activist who was a Black Panther leader in the 1960s and...
www.infoplease.com /biography/var/eldridgecleaver.html   (216 words)

  
 Black Panther - Cleaver, Eldridge Leroy, (1935-1998)
Cleaver, Eldridge Leroy, (1935-1998), African American writer, political activist, and former minister of information for the Black Panther Party.
After a shootout in Oakland that left Cleaver and a police officer wounded and 17-year-old Black Panther Bobby Hutton dead, Cleaver was charged with assault and attempted murder.
Cleaver lectured on religion and politics in the 1980s and ran as an independent candidate for Ronald Dellums’s seat in the House of Representatives in 1984.
www.africanaonline.com /black_panther_e_cleaver.htm   (502 words)

  
 KEEP ELDRIDGE CLEAVER OUT OF PRISON!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
We therefore state that the imprisonment of Eldridge Cleaver before he has been tried will serve to further prejudice and jury hearing his case, and that the imprisonment of Eldridge Cleaver before he has been tried will violate the principle that an individual is innocent until proven otherwise.
We demand, then, the continuation of parole for Eldridge Cleaver and an end to the harassment and intimidation bestowed upon him daily by the authorities of the State of California in general, and the County of Alameda in particular.
Eldridge was immediately returned to prison but was finally released on a order of Judge Sherwin of Solano County in California who stated that Eldridge was being held as a political prisoner.
www.marcdupuis.com /archives/cleaver.htm   (417 words)

  
 Campus Times, May 8, 1998
Leroy Eldridge Cleaver, consultant to the Coalition for Diversity at the University of La Verne, died last Friday morning at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center.
Cleaver escaped the scene when Hutton was shot to death, and immediately began his eight-year term as a fugitive.
Cleaver's work is continued through his hand-made flower pots, as well as his writings which include "Post Prison Writings and Speeches," "Eldridge Cleaver's Black Papers" and Soul on Fire.
www.ulv.edu /campustimes/980508/cleaver.htm   (952 words)

  
 Ex-Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver dies at 62
At times a convict, political candidate and author, Cleaver was one of the original Black Panthers, formed in 1966 in Oakland by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
Cleaver was arrested after the shootout, but jumped $50,000 bail and fled the United States.
Cleaver fled the United States after a shootout with police in Oakland in 1968, living in Cuba, Algeria and France before returning to the United States after a seven-year exile.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/98/05/01/cleaverdead.html   (403 words)

  
 Retrospective on Soul on Ice By Sharif
Cleaver already stated he suffered from a "revolutionary sickness" that manifested itself in his preference for and rape of white women.
Cleaver’s attacks, first on Patterson and then on Baldwin, thus seems to be born of his own fears of not being able to consummate his love of white women.
Cleaver cleverly and revealingly entitled one of his essays "The Allegory of the Black Eunuchs." There is nothing original in this essay, except for the use of the term "eunuch" to describe the young, fl men imprisoned in America's jails.
www.nathanielturner.com /soulonice.htm   (3610 words)

  
 One Journey Home: Eldridge Cleaver's Spiritual Path
Eldridge Cleaver refused to be kept in the box of his own history.
I sensed the importance of who Eldridge could be in the spiritual environmental movement in the country, and I was excited about his potential to involve more people of color in a movement that was almost entirely white.
Eldridge’s regal ex-wife Kathleen was there (I remember him telling me he didn’t blame her for divorcing him—if he’d been married to himself, he would have gotten a divorce too).
www.earthlight.org /2004/essay50_neale.html   (2732 words)

  
 CNN - Eldridge Cleaver dies at 62 - May 1, 1998
POMONA, California (CNN) -- Eldridge Cleaver, the 1960s Black Panther activist and fugitive who later swung to the other side of the political spectrum to become a Republican, died Friday at the age of 62.
Sent to prison in 1958 on a charge of assault with intent to kill, Cleaver served nine years and wrote "Soul on Ice," a series of powerful essays outlining his views on race in America.
Cleaver returned in 1975 and began a remarkable political transformation.
www.cnn.com /US/9805/01/cleaver.obit.2   (574 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Eldridge Cleaver’s Last Gift by David Horowitz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Eldridge Cleaver was a man who made a significant imprint on our times, and not for the best.
Eldridge was indeed a rapist, and possibly a murderer as well (he boasted to Timothy Leary, whom he held hostage in his Algerian exile, that he even had a private graveyard for his enemies).
It was Eldridge who accused Panther leader Huey Newton of betraying the radical cause when Newton reversed his famous summons to "pick up the gun" and begin the revolution.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1146   (865 words)

  
 Reason magazine
Cleaver burst upon the national scene in 1968 with the publication of Soul on Ice, a collection of his prison writings.
Eldridge Cleaver was interviewed at his Berkeley apartment by REASON editors Bill Kauffman and Lynn Scarlett.
Cleaver: It was exactly that—the shortness of it, the duration of their experience and the depth and quality of it.
reason.com /8602/fe.ls.cleaver.shtml   (5032 words)

  
 Miss Poppy's Diary - June 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cleaver was adept at coining phrases and claims the statement, "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem," as his own.
Cleaver's last appearance was at the Interfaith Earth Day Conference in Portland, Oregon on April 18th of this year.
No one sugar-coated the life of Eldridge Cleaver but it was obvious that he was a man loved by those close to him, despite his flaws.
www.postfun.com /pfp/features/98/jun/diary.html   (834 words)

  
 Robert Fulford's column about Eldridge Cleaver
Cleaver was a man of infinite delusions, a tragic figure when he was not a clown.
In April of 1968, Cleaver was charged with attempted murder, after a gunfight with police in Oakland.
The man who was once clearly fated to die at the hands of police or fellow Panthers instead died in a hospital bed, of causes his family declined to identify.
www.robertfulford.com /Cleaver.html   (931 words)

  
 Eldridge Cleaver: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, EHandler: no quick summary.
Cleaver returned to the United States in 1975, EHandler: no quick summary.
Cleaver died in Pomona, EHandler: no quick summary.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/el/eldridge_cleaver.htm   (950 words)

  
 BPP: "Information," September 28, 1968
CLEAVER ["]: The Black Panther Party is a political party that originated in Oakland, California, and was started by Huey P. Newton, who is the minister of defense of the party, and our chairman, Bobby Seale.
CLEAVER: If you're speaking in ultimate terms as to whether it will be ultimately possible for white people and fl people to live together, I think it will be up to white people.
CLEAVER: Yes, we do include that as a descendent of Africa because Africa is the home of the fl man. The Mexican people refer to themselves as brown people, and I've heard Indian people refer to themselves as the red man.
www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/bpp/bpp19680928_6_14.html   (3945 words)

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