Kathleen Neal Cleaver was born on May 13, 1945, in Dallas, Texas.
The couple lived in Cuba, Algeria, France, and North Korea. Kathleen went work on the Eldridge Cleaver Defense Fund and Eldridge was freed on bail in 1976. Her father Ernest Neal was a sociology professor at Wiley College.Her mother, Juette (Johnson) Neal, earned a master’s degree in mathematics. Began Legal Career.
Eldridge was charged with parole violation following the incident. 1 Kathleen gave birth to their first son, Maceo, soon after arriving in Algeria.
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After she met Eldridge, Kathleen moved to San Francisco in November, 1967, to join the Black Panther Party. Later that year, Eldridge was wounded in a shoot-out between Panther members and the police.
After graduating, Cleaver worked for the law firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore.
Kathleen Neal Cleaver emerged in the late 1960s as one of the most influential leaders of the Black Panther Party (BPP).. Neal was born in Memphis, Texas on May 13, 1945. After only a year, the Cleavers moved back to the United States, and Eldridge was sent to prison. She divorced Eldridge in 1987, then earned a law degree at Yale Law School.
Lawyer, professor, former Black Panther. She currently is a Senior Research Associate at the Yale Law School, and a Senior Lecturer in the African American Studies department at Yale University.
The Algeria government became disgruntled with Eldridge and the new organization. The Cleavers formed a new organization called the Revolutionary People’s Communication Network. A year later she gave birth to Jojuyounghi, while the family was in North Korea.
After the family returned to the United States, she attended a Quaker boarding school and later attended Oberlin College and Barnard College. Cleaver also ran for the California state assembly for the Peace and Freedom party, but was unsuccessful.As a result of being part of the Black Panther Party, the Cleavers suffered from some acts of violence. The Cleavers’ apartment was raided in 1968 before a Panther rally by the San Francisco Tactical Squad on the suspicion of hiding guns and ammunition.
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He was tried for the shoot-out in 1968 and was found guilty of assault.
Loading player… Kathleen Neal Cleaver was born in Dallas, Texas and spent much of her childhood living abroad with her family due to her father’s position in the Foreign Service.
In 2005, she was selected an inaugural Fletcher Foundation Fellow. Unapologetic in her efforts to abolish systematic injustice, Kathleen Cleaver ’84 LAW ’89 has long been a leader in radical political circles.
He decided he did not want to face another incarceration and fled the country.Eldridge spent seven months in Cuba and was finally reunited with Kathleen in Algeria in 1969.
Since then, Kathleen has held multiple professorships and also worked as a law clerk in the U.S. Court of Appeals.
He divorced Kathleen in 1987. Eldridge’s legal situation was not finally situated until 1980.After all of Eldridge’s legal situation, Kathleen went back to school in 1981, after receiving a full scholarship from Yale University.
Soon after Kathleen was born, her father, Ernest Neal, accepted a job as the direct of the Rural Life Council of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
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Kathleen left for the United States later that year to arrange Eldridge’s return and raise a defense fund.
Both of Kathleen’s parents had higher education; her father was a sociology professor at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas and her mother had a master’s degree in mathematics.
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The Eldridge and Kathleen Neal Cleaver Family Archive contains over 2000 images acquired over four generations of the Neal/Cleaver family history.