Black Panthers and Eldridge Cleaver, 1970

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In 1970, Life magazine asked Gordon parks to report on the Panthers and their leaders, with a focus on Eldridge Cleaver, then the Panther minister of information. After serving a prison term, Cleaver was on parole when authorities ordered him back to prison because of his involvement in a Panther-police incident. He fled the country and moved to Algiers, where Parks met and interviewed him and his wife Kathleen Cleaver.

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Untitled, Algiers, Algeria, 1970

Untitled, Algiers, Algeria, 1970

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