Eldridge Cleaver
Book description
A memoir, full of stories about his life in Oakland, his travels, prominent international personalities of the 1960s and 1970s, and the Black Panther Party. Praised by Amiri Baraka, who contributed a short Introduction.
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I was a Black Panther and worked with Eldridge editing the Black Panther Party newspaper in 1967-1968 in San Francisco. I’ve known Marvin X since I was a teenager. He gives an up close, insider’s look at the Black Power movement, naming names and telling truths that are insightful and uncomfortable. Cleaver left the U.S., lived in exile and returned with a sharp turn to the right and an embrace of Christianity; Marvin X was his buddy at several key points on this pariah’s path. This memoir captures him (and Marvin) fighting to survive the post-revolutionary era and his demons.
From Judy's list on how rebels kept up the good fight.
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