At the time of his death, Cleaver was working as a diversity consultant for the University of La Verne, near Los Angeles. © 1998 Cable News Network, Inc.A Time Warner Company All Rights Reserved.

When his father got a job on a railroad dining car, the family moved to Phoenix, and then to Watts, where Cleaver’s parents separated when he was 13.

A year later, Cleaver had his first brush with the law when he was arrested for bicycle theft and sent to a reformatory. This book is an informative memoir sketching his life with his parents, activists in America's civil rights movement, including details of their life in … Cleaver died at 6:20 a.m. at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center in suburban Los Angeles. When Cleaver was asked to speak at the University of California at Berkeley, then-Gov. The old attempted murder charge was reduced to assault, and Cleaver was sentenced to 2,000 hours of community service. SOUL ON ISLAM written by Ahmad Eldridge Cleaver, son of Eldridge Cleaver, Ex-Black Panther Party who's Soul on Ice (1968) was a best seller. “We were like those who staged the Boston Tea Party,” Cleaver once said of the Panthers. “Change,” he said, “is not treason.

Mormonism came next. By the late 1980s, Cleaver’s once-resonant voice had fallen silent and he slipped into anonymity, earning a meager living scavenging bottles and broken-down chairs off the streets of Berkeley.

"I wanted to send waves of consternation through the white race," he said. As leftists looked on, incredulous, he renounced his revolutionary past, praised the United States government and declared himself a born-again Christian, saying that he had seen the face of Jesus in a full moon. Your guide to the 2020 election in California.

All this from a once fierce advocate of violence who shot it out with police and fled into exile from a country he had come to hate. The only time his name popped up was on the police blotter for arrests related to cocaine possession and burglary.

Ronald Reagan tried to bar him from lecturing in a course at UC Berkeley.

In 1968, they were published as the book "Soul on Ice," which became the philosophical foundation of the Black Power movement.

Upon his release, he returned to the drug trade and committed a new crime--rape. In 1968, Cleaver was involved in a shoot-out with police that left a fellow Black Panther dead.

He was placed on probation in 1988 after convictions for burglary and cocaine possession.