Kathleen Cleaver at the release party for Robert F. Williams: Self-Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination as told by Mabel Williams.
Photo: Scott Braley.
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Kathleen Cleaver began her college education at Oberlin College in Ohio, later transferring to prestigious Barnard College in New York. In 1966, she left college to work in the New York office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Cleaver's January 1967 arrival at SNCC's Atlanta, Georgia, headquarters set off a series of life-altering events. From 1967 to 1971, she was the Communications Secretary of the Black Panther Party and the first woman member of its Central Committee.
After sharing years of exile with her former husband Eldridge Cleaver, she returned to the United States in late 1975. Since graduating from Yale Law School in 1987, Cleaver has combined legal work, teaching and activism. She has taught at numerous universities including Emory, Yale and Sara Lawrence. She served on the Georgia Supreme Court Commission on Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts and became a Board Member of the Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights. She has been active in the campaigns to free death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and former Black Panther Geronimo Pratt (released in 1997).
Her writings and essays have appeared in numerous magazines, books and newspapers. Kathleen Cleaver, a major voice in the Black liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s, continues today to speak out against racism, sexism and economic inequality.
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