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born 1935, Wabbaseka, near Little Rock, Ark., U.S.
died May 1, 1998, Pomona, Calif.

Cleaver (left) and his wife, Kathleen
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in full Leroy Eldridge Cleaver American black militant whose autobiographical volume Soul on Ice (1968) is a classic statement of black alienation in the United States.

Cleaver was an inmate of correctional institutions in California almost constantly from his junior high school days until 1966 for crimes ranging from possession of marijuana to assault…

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