Paris Portraits of Eldridge Cleaver circa 1975.
Source: Eldrigde Cleaver Photography Collection, 1966-circa 1982, BANC PIC 1991.078. Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Born in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, on August 31, 1935, Eldridge Cleaver spent much of his youth in reform school and prisons in California. He began writing while incarcerated. Freed on parole, he joined the Black Panthers and published his prison essays in Soul on Ice. In 1968, he fled the country to avoid a return to prison. Cleaver was 62 when he died in Pomona, California, on May 1, 1998.- Biography.com
Soul on Fire by 
Soul on Ice by 
Eldridge Cleaver by 
Conversations with Eldridge Cleaver; Algiers by 
Eldridge Cleaver : post-prison writings and speeches by 
Target Zero by Freedom Archives: On The Ideology Of The Black Panther Party
Why I left the U.S. And Why I Am Returning
Cleaver Seized on Return Here After 7-Year Exile
New York Times: Eldridge Cleaver Post- Prison Writings and Speeches
'Target Zero': Eldridge Cleaver's Final Essays
Frontline: Interview Eldridge Cleaver
New York Times: Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther Who Became G.O.P. Conservative, Is Dead at 62
Eldridge Cleaver (wearing dark glasses) with Alprentice (Bunchy) Carter, founder of the Los Angeles branch of the Black Panther Party. Carter was killed in Los Angeles in January 1969.
Source: Eldrigde Cleaver Photography Collection, 1966-circa 1982, BANC PIC 1991.078. Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Paris Portraits of Eldrigde Cleaver circa 1975.
Source: Eldrigde Cleaver Photography Collection, 1966-circa 1982, BANC PIC 1991.078. Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Eldridge Cleaver circa 1968.
Source: Eldrigde Cleaver Photography Collection, 1966-circa 1982, BANC PIC 1991.078. Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.