![]() ![]() Though still passionate about rights for African Americans, he rejected the anger that had motivated his rapes. He also began writing, detailing his continuing philosophical evolution. In 1958, Cleaver was put behind bars once more, this time for assault. He felt that his rapes of white women were "insurrectionary" rapes, justified by what African Americans had suffered under a system dominated by whites. After his release in 1957, he raped an unknown number of women, both black and white. In 1954, Cleaver was sent to prison for possession of marijuana.ĭuring his incarceration, Cleaver began to develop his own political philosophy. He would return for a second stay for selling marijuana. Reform School and PrisonĪs a teenager, Cleaver was charged with stealing a bicycle and sent to reform school. Soon after a move to Los Angeles, California, his father left the family. Growing up, Cleaver witnessed his father beating his mother. Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was born on August 31, 1935, in Wabbaseka, Arkansas. Cleaver was 62 when he died in Pomona, California, on May 1, 1998. In 1968, he fled the country to avoid a return to prison. Freed on parole, he joined the Black Panthers and published his prison essays in Soul on Ice. ![]() Eldridge Cleaver spent much of his youth in reform school and prisons in California. ![]()
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