
Acting
August 31, 1935
Died at age 62
May 1, 1998
Date of Death
Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA
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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".