Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abrasive Eloquence. Another Panther was having his problems with the law last week. The Panthers' "minister of information," Author Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice), was ordered back to prison for violating his parole from an assault conviction. Cleaver became involved last April in a firefight during which the Panthers' 17-year-old treasurer was shot by Oakland policemen. Cleaver himself was wounded. As a result, his parole was revoked, and he was accused of assault with intent to commit murder. A lower court later freed him, ruling that Cleaver was being held because of his extremist political opinions...
...Cleaver, a jail-educated militant of abrasive eloquence, the court order for his imprisonment comes at an embarrassing moment. He is the presidential candidate for the antiwar Peace and Freedom Party. He is also scheduled to appear as a guest lecturer at the University of California's Berkeley campus, an appointment that stirred angry protests from the state's political establishment. For the Panthers, with two of their leaders on ice, it was a time of barely throttled fury...
Meeting late last night, the Faculty Senate at U.C. Berkeley passed six resolutions backing Eldridge Cleaver's appointment as lecturer in an experimental course on racism...
...vote, the faculty approved the key proposal--Resolution 5--urging the organizers of the Cleaver course "to carry on the process of instruction, on campus...or off-campus...
...yesterday's press conference, Samula Kaplan, a sociology instructor who helped organize the course, said that it will hold an organizational meeting today. Cleaver will not speak at today's meeting Kaplan said, but is scheduled to lecture on Thursday...