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The Life of Eldridge Cleaver
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Eldridge Leroy Cleaver gave his final interview in 1997, one year before his death. The former revolutionary declared he “saw the writing on the wall” and lamented that “there is no place for an Afro-American liberation movement.” Eldridge’s ex-wife, Kathleen, recalled seeing him for the last time, looking “far older” than his 61 years, in a “poorly fitting suit…salvaged from Goodwill.”
Why did Cleaver – who commanded the attention of international media in the late 1960s – die in obscurity three decades later?
Cleaver’s journey from illustriousness to insignificance was a winding one.
Like many 1960s Black activists, Cleaver was born in the South – Arkansas – and was part of the exodus of African Americans to the West Coast after 1940.
In his youth, he was thrust into a rapidly evolving urban scene in California.
Forays into petty crime landed him in juvenile detention centers and a stint in Soledad Pr
