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Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998) was an author, and a prominent American civil rights leader and activist, beginning as prominent member of the Black Panther Party. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (633x1024, 48 KB) http://memory. ...
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1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ...
An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ...
Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ...
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Born in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, Cleaver's family moved to Phoenix and then to Los Angeles. As a teenager he became involved in petty crime, and in 1957 was convicted of assault with intent to murder. While in prison, he wrote a book of essays, Soul on Ice, which was influential in the black power movement and is now considered a classic by many people. In the book, Cleaver infamously acknowledges raping several white women, which he defended as "an insurrectionary act." He also admitted that he began his career as a rapist by "practicing on black girls in the ghetto." He maintains that his criminal actions have nothing to do with the views expressed in the book. Cleaver was released from prison in 1966, after which he joined the Oakland-based Black Panther Party and served as its Minister of Information (spokesperson). Wabbaseka is a city located in Jefferson County, Arkansas. ...
Nickname: Valley of the Sun Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: Country United States State Arizona Counties Maricopa Incorporated February 25, 1881 - Mayor Phil Gordon (D) Area - City 475. ...
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Tommie Smith (gold medal) and John Carlos (bronze medal) famously performed the Black Power salute on the 200 m winners podium at the 1968 Olympics. ...
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Oakland, founded in 1852, is the eighth-largest city in California[1] and the county seat of Alameda County. ...
He was a candidate for President in 1968 on the ticket of the Peace and Freedom Party. That same year, he was injured in a conflict between the Panthers and Oakland police. Charged with attempted murder, he jumped bail to flee to Algeria – where he was joined by Timothy Leary. Cleaver placed Leary under "revolutionary arrest" (kidnapped) as a counter-revolutionary, although Leary was later released. Cleaver later left Algeria, and spent time in both Cuba and France. The presidential seal was first used by President Hayes in 1880 and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii. ...
United States Peace and Freedom Party logo The Peace and Freedom Party (PFP) is a United States political party founded in 1967 as a leftist organization opposed to the Vietnam War. ...
For the American baseball player use Tim Leary (baseball player) Timothy Francis Leary, Ph. ...
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). The sleeve accommodated free movement and size changes of the enclosed male organ. The penis (plural penises, penes) is an external male sexual organ. ...
The word sheath has a number of related meanings in English. ...
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Soul on Fire In his 1978 book Soul on Fire Cleaver revealed several surprising aspects of his exile in Algeria: - Cleaver was supported by regular stipends from the Republic of North Vietnam, with which the USA was then at war.
- Cleaver was followed by other former-criminals-turned-revolutionaries, many of whom hijacked planes to get to Algeria. The Algerians expected Cleaver to keep his proteges in line, which he described as becoming increasingly difficult, as their increasing number stretched his North Vietnamese allowance to the breaking point. Cleaver organized a stolen car ring to employ his revolutionary proteges. They would steal cars in Europe, and sell them in Africa.
- Cleaver fled Algeria out of fear for his life. He could no longer control his proteges. Additionally, the Algerian police were cracking down on them. There had been gun battles. He abandoned his proteges and went to live underground in France.
- Cleaver experienced a Christian rebirth – became "born again" during his year of isolation, while living underground.
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN), or less commonly, Vietnamese Democratic Republic (Vietnamese: Việt Nam Dân Chủ Cộng Hòa), also known as North Vietnam, was proclaimed by Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi, September 2nd1945 and was recognized by the Peoples Republic of China and the...
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Return to America Cleaver returned to the United States in 1975, and subsequently renounced the Black Panthers. Legal wrangling ended in his being sentenced to probation for assault.
In the early 1980s, Cleaver became disillusioned with what he saw as the commercial nature of mainstream evangelical Christianity and flirted with alternatives, including Sun Myung Moon's campus ministry organization CARP and Mormonism. Cleaver was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and remained a member until his death in 1998. Sun Myung Moon in 2005. ...
The Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP) is the student arm of the Unification movement of Sun Myung Moon. ...
Mormonism is a term used to describe religious, ideological, and cultural aspects of the various denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement. ...
The Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the largest attraction in the citys Temple Square. ...
By the 1980s, Cleaver had become a conservative Republican. He endorsed Ronald Reagan for President in 1980 and in 1986 he embarked on an unsuccessful GOP campaign to win one of California's seats in the United States Senate. (He failed to win his party's nomination.)
Later in the 1980s, Cleaver became addicted to crack cocaine. In 1992 he was convicted of cocaine possession and burglary. In 1994, after nearly dying in a cocaine-related assault, he kicked his addiction.[citation needed] Cocaine (or crack in its freebase form) is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ...
Addiction is a chronic disorder proposed to be precipitated by a combination of genetic, biological/pharmacological and social factors. ...
He became involved in fighting addictions with healthy nutrition.
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. He is survived by his daughter, Joju Younghi Cleaver, and son Macio Cleaver. Prostate cancer is a disease in which cancer develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. ...
Location in the County of Los Angeles Country United States State California County Los Angeles County, California Mayor Norma Torres Area - City 22. ...
Altadena is an unincorporated census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California approx. ...
Quotes about Eldridge Cleaver "I thought Eldridge was the reincarnation of Malcolm X. I'd never heard such power, such eloquence," David Hilliard United States Peace and Freedom Party logo The Peace and Freedom Party (PFP) is a United States political party founded in 1967 as a leftist organization opposed to the Vietnam War. ...
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References American punk band Dead To Me quotes Cleaver in the liner notes of their 2006 debut album "Cuban Ballerina."
American Rapper Ras Kass named his debut album after Cleaver's classic essay "Soul On Ice".
James "J.Y." Young mentions him during the track "Half Penny Two Penny" in the "Paradise Theatre" album. The song "Half Penny Two Penny" was an attack on the financial problems the US had in the late 1970s. In the song was the lyric; "Yes Mrs. Cleaver your son's home to stay" which was referring to Eldridge Cleaver (this was confirmed by James Young on In the Studio with Redbeard).
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