California
Eldridge Cleaver, an author and a former Black Panther, has been arrested for investigation of cocaine charges, authorities said.
Oct. 5, 1987
Former Black Panther Party leader Eldridge Cleaver was placed on three years’ probation for burglarizing a house under renovation.
June 29, 1988
Politics
Former Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver was put on probation for 18 months on a cocaine possession charge and agreed to undergo drug treatment.
May 27, 1988
World & Nation
Former Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver was charged Thursday with felony possession of cocaine after he was stopped leaving a suspected crack house, police said.
June 5, 1992
Eldridge Cleaver, a leader in the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s, was reported in critical condition Tuesday following surgery for a brain hemorrhage.
March 2, 1994
At 22 cents, the wooden sign from former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver, with Cleaver’s autograph thrown in, was a great deal, says the buyer.
Oct. 26, 1987
Eldridge Cleaver to Give CSUN Lecture
Feb. 25, 1997
People die, some too soon, some not soon enough, and a newspaper tries to do them a kind of deadline justice, crafting obituaries with an eye to history.
May 6, 1998
Funeral: Friends, activists recall Eldridge Cleaver’s days as a militant, and later as a Christian Republican.
May 10, 1998
Former Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver’s plan to stage a patriotic rally in Fremont’s Central Park suffered a setback when park officials decided he picked the wrong day--the Fourth of July.
June 17, 1987