Grier Raggio, Jr. (review date 13 March 1969)
SOURCE: "Complex 'Black Voice' Called Eldridge Cleaver," in Wall Street Journal, Vol. CLXIII, No. 51, March 13, 1969, p. 14.
[In the following review, Raggio explicates the main points of Cleaver's agenda in Post-Prison Writings and Speeches, separating his rhetoric from his insights on race relations.]
Eldridge Cleaver is not a man who errs, in life or in prose, on the side of caution. At age 20 he began a systematic program of raping white women after coming to the conclusion that Negro males...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©1999 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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