Name: Eldridge Cleaver
Birthday: 31 August 1935
Deathday: 01 May 1998
Place of Birth: Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA
Known For: Acting
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".