Eldridge Cleaver Summary

Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998), an American writer and a leader of the Black Panther party, was noted for advocating violent revolution within the United States.Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was born Aug... Read more

Critical Essay by Maxwell Geismar [Soul on Ice] is one of the discoveries of the 1960s. In a literary epoch marked by a prevailing mediocrity of expression, a lack of substantial new talent, a kind o... Read more

Critical Essay by Harold Cruse Reviewing Eldridge Cleaver's second book, Post-Prison Speeches and Writings, demands a critical license like that of reviewing the aspects of a man's life... Read more

Critical Essay by Shane Stevens [Cleaver's] volume of "post-prison" writings and speeches (a phrase stamped on the book jacket and used as part of the title on the title page, no... Read more

Critical Essay by Bayard Rustin The political transformation of Eldridge Cleaver is one of the most profoundly interesting human dramas of our era. However, tracing his evolution is less my concern t... Read more

Critical Essay by Jacques G. Squillace [Soul on Fire] projects back to the sixties, when men and women, educators and policy-makers, blacks and whites were caught in a moral bind, demonstrating for h... Read more

Critical Essay by David Evanier The style throughout [Soul on Ice] is pop Leftism, a mixture of sex and revolution characteristic of the New Left around the world…. Horst Krueger describes thi... Read more

Critical Essay by Julian Mayfield There used to be a lot of nonsense written about black writers being outside the mainstream of American literature. This was because, for the most part, their work f... Read more

Critical Essay by Michael Cooke The movement of Americans of African ancestry to fulfill the vision of a necessary, if unpromised, land boasts its ranks of orators, defenders spiritual and real, lega... Read more

Critical Essay by Jack Richardson The madness takes its toll, but it should be clear, before all critical connection between the black and white sensibility breaks down, that, for the Negro writer, m... Read more

[In the following obituary, Kifner details Cleaver's literary career and traces the achievements and disappointments of his life.] Eldridge Cleaver, whose searing prison memoir Soul on Ice a... Read more

[In the following obituary, the critic summarizes Cleaver's career.] He glared balefully from his wanted poster, signed by J. Edgar Hoover in 1968, the year he both ran for president and fle... Read more

[In the following review, Hughes situates the themes of Soul on Ice in the context of American race relations at the middle of the twentieth century.] In one of the scenarios which experts make to ... Read more

[In the following review, Raggio explicates the main points of Cleaver's agenda in Post-Prison Writings and Speeches, separating his rhetoric from his insights on race relations.] Eldridge C... Read more

[In the following review, Hood describes aspects of Cleaver's polemics in Post-Prison Writings and Speeches, concentrating on his sexual and social reform theories.] 'It has been said... Read more

[In the following review, Johnson recounts Cleaver's life as related in Soul on Fire.] In November 1968 Eldridge Cleaver, the Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party, jumped bail ... Read more

[In the following essay, Hubbard and Grant profile the life and times of Cleaver, focusing on his spiritual conversion.] On the stage at Miami Springs Senior Community School, the man is dispensing... Read more

[In the following essay, Horowitz comments on the significance of Cleaver's "many changes of heart" during his lifetime.] Eldridge Cleaver was a man who made a significant impr... Read more