Eldridge Cleaver : post-prison writings and speeches. / Eldridge Cleaver. Edited and with an appraisal by Robert Scheer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998.

Contributor:

Scheer, Robert, editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Rampart book.

A Rampart book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998.

Cleaver, Eldridge.

African American political activists.

African Americans.

African Americans--Politics and government.

African Americans--Social conditions.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, xxxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 211 pages, 7 unnumbered pages. ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, Random House 1969.

Contents:

Introduction / by Robert Scheer

Affidavit #1: I Am 33 Years old

The Decline of the Black Muslims

Psychology: The Black Bible

Robert Kennedy's Prison

The Courage to Kill: Meeting the Panthers

Introduction to the Biography of Huey P. Newton

My Father and Stokely Carmichael

The Land Question and Black Liberation

The Death of Martin Luther King: Requiem for Nonviolence

Affidavit #2: Shoot-out in Oakland

Open Letter to Ronald Reagen

An Aside to Ronald Reagan

Stanford Speech

Farewell Address

Playboy Interview [with Nat Hentoff].

Notes:

"A Ramparts book."

"Jacket designed by Ronald Clyne. Front of jacket photograph by Eve Crane."

Back jacket photograph by Anne Dowie.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

8757