Kathleen Cleaver

Details:# Full Name Kathleen Neal Cleaver

Date of Birth

May 13, 1945.

Place of Birth

Dallas, Texas, U.S..

Education

Kathleen Cleaver attended George School, a Quaker boarding school near Philadelphia, where she graduated with honors in 1963. She continued her education at Oberlin College and later transferred to Barnard College. She graduated summa cum laude from Yale College in 1982, and earned a J.D. at Yale Law School in 1989.

Spouses’ Names

She was married to Eldridge Cleaver from 1967 until their divorce in 1987.

Children’s Names

Kathleen Cleaver had two children with Eldridge Cleaver.

Parents’ Names

Her father was a sociology professor named Ernest Neal.

Known Affiliates’ Names

Kathleen Cleaver was affiliated with the Black Panther Party and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

Affiliated Organizations’ Names

Kathleen Cleaver was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She also worked with the Eldridge Cleaver Defense Fund.

Career

Kathleen Cleaver is an American law professor and activist, known for her involvement with the Black Power movement and the Black Panther Party. She served as the Party’s communications secretary. After her activism, she pursued a career in law and academia. She worked for the Manhattan law firm of Cravath, Swain & Moore and then taught law at Emory University and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Cleaver also worked as a law clerk in the United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, and was a senior lecturer at Yale in the African American Studies Department. She recently retired from the Emory University School of Law, which she joined in 1992.

Publications

Her writings have been published in numerous books, magazines, and newspapers, including “Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party” (2001) which she co-edited with George Katsiaficas, and as the editor of Eldridge Cleaver’s “Target Zero: A Life in Writing” (2006).

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