Steve Biko And Eldridge Cleaver
To better understand the African Diaspora through the eyes of a black man, one must first comprehend the struggles that the man had fought his way through to give freedom that his people deserved. The two men that will be delved into in this paper; Steve Biko and Eldrige Cleaver, men who hail from two opposites sides of the Meridian yet have so much in common one would think they fought side by side for freedom. Steve Biko was anti-Apartheid politician in South Africa who died in 1977 after being tortured and starved for twenty-four days in prison for allegedly planning to overthrow the government and his "black consciousness campaign." Eldridge Cleaver on the other hand helped organize the Black Panther Movement in America in 1966 and was also its Minister for Information. After he returned from exile in Algeria, he renounced the Black Panther organization and had even run for president of the United States under the Peace and Freedom Party ticket. He extreme "black power" views......
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