Eldridge Cleaver Interview by Nat Hentoff

Eldridge Cleaver Interview by Nat Hentoff

Eldridge Cleaver was the Minister of Information, or spokesperson, for the Black Panther Party. Bobby Seale and Huey Newton formed the Party in 1966 in Oakland, California. Cleaver joined the group in December of that year, after he was released from prison. In 1968, Cleaver ran for President of the United States with the Peace and Freedom Party. In this interview given in the same year, Cleaver opens up and explains the ten points of the Black Panther Party, his feelings on white Americans and the establishment, and the events of the shooting in which he was involved in April of 1968. The interview was granted while Cleaver was on bail for that latter incident, and would soon flee the country to live in Cuba.

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AP2 .P69 v.15 no.3 Sept-Dec 1968

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