cleaver eldridge minister information (1 Ergebnisse)

Stapled, author's photo on cover, 21,5 x 14 cm, offset, unpagined (8 pp), photo in text. Small brown stain to right bottom corner, else fine. First edition. An essay on generational education. Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998), convicted on several occasions, between 18 and 23 years, for drug trafficking, rape, violence, attempted murder, is released in 1966 and joined the same year the Black Panther Party BPP in Oakland, California, which advocates armed self-defense of black Americans and of which he quickly becomes the spokesman and minister of information. In 1968, he published his essay "Soul on Ice" which influenced the whole Black Power movement and is considererd a classic today. The same year, he was injured in Oakland when the police opened fire on black activists, killing the treasurer of the Black Panthers Bobby Hutton. Victim of illegal maneuvers by the FBI to demolish him politically by accusing him of murder, he went into exile in Algeria, where he remained the target of harassment by the FBI, which sent him provocateurs and an avalanche of false news that resulted in a split within the BPP. He left for Cuba and then lived in France where he tried to become a fashion designer. In 1975, he returned to the United States and renounced the BPP. He became a conservative and anti-communist, supporting Israel, denouncing Cuba, approving the negociations between the USA and the white regime in South Africa and getting closer to the evangelist preacher Billy Graham. In the second half of the 1980s, he joined the Republican Party, became a Moonist and then a Mormon. / United States. Etats-Unis. Afro-American movement. Mouvement afro-américain. (B).