Eldridge Cleaver was born on August 31, 1935. He was a prominent civil rights activist, writer, and political thinker, best known for his role in the Black Panther Party during the 1960s. His most famous work is Soul on Ice, a collection of essays that discusses his experiences in prison, race, and revolutionary politics. Cleaver was a controversial figure who later shifted his views, becoming a born-again Christian and distancing himself from his earlier radical ideology.
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