Leaving Cleaver (1999)

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In March 1997, social activist, former Black Panther, and author, Eldridge Cleaver sat down with Henry Louis Gates Jr. for a discussion of his life as a civil rights activist. It would be the last major interview Cleaver gave before his death in May 1998. This film draws on the 1997 interview, archival footage, and commentary from Cleaver's former wife Kathleen, as well as audio tapes of a 1975 interview that Gates did with Cleaver in Paris.

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as Self Age 75 · Keyser, West Virginia, USA Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. is an American historian, literary critic, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchi...

Eldridge Cleaver as Self Died 1998 · Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was an American writer and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party. In 1968, Cleaver wrote Soul on Ice, a collection of essays that, at the time...

Kathleen Cleaver as Self Age 80 · Dallas, Texas, USA Kathleen Neal Cleaver is an American professor of law, known for her involvement with the Revolutionary movement and the Black Panther Party..

Cast Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Eldridge Cleaver, Kathleen Cleaver