1984Nominee
Best Performance
Moon Shadows
Eldridge Cleaver
Actor
Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA
August 31, 1935
Biography
Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was an American writer and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party. In 1968, Cleaver wrote Soul on Ice, a collection of essays that, at the time of its publication, was praised by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant and revealing".
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1972Nominee
Best Performance
Malcolm X
2001Nominee
Best Performance
A Huey P. Newton Story
Career Highlights
1990Highlight
Best Performance
The FBI's War on Black America
1980Highlight
Best Performance
A Decade of Struggle
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The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution