![]() ![]() The Martin Luther King Memorial Prize 1970 awarded to Eldridge Cleaver for :"Soul on Ice" The New York Times named it one of it's 10 best books of the year. ![]() Cleaver's memoir from Folsom state prison, where he was doing time for rape, was hailed as an authentic voice of black rage in a white-ruled world. It was a wild, divisive time in the United States, and Mr. When "Soul on Ice," was published in 1968, it had a tremendous impact on an intellectual community radicalized by the civil rights movement, urban riots, the war in Vietnam and campus rebellions. Cleaver writes in Soul on Ice, "I'm perfectly aware that I'm in prison, that I'm a Negro, that I've been a rapist, and that I have a Higher Uneducation." What Cleaver shows us, on the pages of his now classic autobiography, is how much he was a man. The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and black experience.īy turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge Cleaver are testament to his unique place in American history. ![]()
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