Cleaver, Eldridge (1935-1998)

In 1966, Clever joined the Black Panther Party for the SDF immediately after the establishment of Oakland 's Oakey Newton and Bobby Seale. Clifford became the first information minister of the party. The following year, he married Catherine Clifford, member of the Black Panther Party. Because of the popularity of Ice on Ice, Clever immediately soon became one of the most famous Panther leaders, and he won the 1968 competition for the US President to participate in Peace and Liberal Party Did. In the same year, Clifford was seriously injured in the gun battle between Panthers and the Oakland Police. In the face of attempted murder, he skipped bail and fled the United States exiled to Mexico, Algeria, Cuba and France.

When Clever returned to America in 1975, he experienced political change. He condemned the Panther party and told the media that he would receive a fair trial under the US legal system. After a long court struggle, the court abandoned attempted murder and was sentenced to probation.

Even in the 1980s, Clifford's political and religious perspectives continued to the right. He became a reborn Christian, an anti-Communist and a conservative Republican. In 1986, Clifford could not run successfully for the Republican nomination at the Senate in California.

In the late 1980s, Clifford left the political arena. He began to be absorbed in breaking cocaine. In 1988, the judge sentenced himself to robbery and cocaine. In 1992, Clever was arrested again with the possession of cocaine, but the judge dismissed the assertion after judging that the police arrested him inappropriately.

As a recovering addict, Clifford promised again evangelical Christianity and later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Later, he found a diverse consultant at the Lovers University near Los Angeles. On 1 May 1998, Clever died at the age of 62 in Los Angeles.

Eldridge Cleaver, Seoul on Ice (New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1968); Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Fire (New York: Word Books, 1978), Joseph Peniel E., Waiting'Til The Midnight Hour : Henry Holt And Company), 2006)

Eldridge Clive was born on Wabbaseka (Jefferson County) on August 31, 1935. His father, Leroy Cleaver, is a waiter at a nightclub artist and his mother, Thelma Hattie Robinson Cleaver, teaches elementary school. Many people think that Leroy Cleaver is a violent man hitting his wife. Eldridge Cleaver recalls that these strikes were the beginning of "being a big ambit like my father but being stronger and stronger than he, I can beat him by knocking down my mother" I will. ""

Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was born in 1935 in the local nightclub's waiter / pianist Leroy Cleaver and elementary school teacher Thelma Cleaver South, Arkansas Wabbaseka. When my father became a waiter on a super chief train, my family moved to a train station from Phoenix, Chicago to Los Angeles. Mr. Clifford later said that his father often beat up his mother and his family broke down shortly after his family moved to the Watts district in Los Angeles. Mr. Clifford finally started Abraham Lincoln Junior High School - his mother was a bureaucrat - when he was arrested for bicycle theft and sent to reformers, older boys set a higher ambition. After being released, he was sent almost immediately to another reformist to sell marijuana. A few days after the release from school, he was arrested for the possession of marijuana and spent two and a half years in Soledad State Prison.

Eldridge Cleaver, born in Wabbaseka, Arkansas on August 31, 1935, spent most of his time at California's reform school and prison. He began writing during imprisonment. He was released on parole, joined Black Leopard, and released his prison paper in the soul of the ice. In 1968, he ran away from the country to avoid returning to prison. When died in Pomona, California on 1 May 1998, the cheetah was 62 years old. During his imprisonment, Clifford began to develop his own political philosophy. After the release in 1957, he raped unknown women including blacks and whites. He felt rape of a white woman was a "rebellious" rape as evidenced by the suffering of an African-American under white control.