Kathleen Cleaver

We've got a clip from him where you can hear certain things from himself.

Elaine Brown, Kathleen Cleaver, Erica Huggins, all these people.

There's loads I'm missing out.

Assata Shakur.

But yeah, a lot of his, I guess his views kind of changed with time.

But he was very instrumental during his time in the Panthers.

Elaine Brown, another person, she was a party chairwoman from 74 to 77. she oversaw a lot of community programs um she was an actor sorry activist she was an author she was an advocate all them type of things there kathleen cleaver she was probably i feel like everyone's seen a picture of kathleen cleaver the light-skinned woman with a big afro yeah she was active she was the first communications secretary and um a prominent public spokesperson i believe she's still alive still alive Somebody please check for me.

I think she's still alive, man.

It was like, it was, um, it was crazy.

I used to get confused with seeing Angela Davis and Kathleen Cleaver, Eldridge Cleaver's wife, to me always looked very similar.

And I used to get them confused, both like light-skinned sisters with afros.

But again, they were both putting in work, man, for the people.

And yeah.

No, I was going to say, yeah, you have people like Elaine Brown, you mentioned in his book, Angela Davis, Kathleen Cleaver.

There's a lot of women that took it on prominent spots.

And then kind of to the point, I was going to say just to the point where you talk about this positive and negative that Huey P. Newton continued to talk about, how there are, you know, there's seeds and, you know, there's seeds in tragedy, right? Or how Walt Whitman talks about, like, we contain multitudes.

And, you know-

Well, once upon a time, family, we had s- we had freedom schools, you know, and they would send kids down south, and they would go to these freedom schools, and people like Kwame Ture, people like Kathleen Cleaver, maybe even a Angela Davis, they went to a lot of these freedom schools, and they was educated to be who they are and to have the skills, the organizing skills that they have.

Ella Baker taught a lot of these people, you know what I mean? Within SNCC, and invited them down and maybe paid for them to go to the freedom school.

And it would be like a summer vacation, but it was a summer vacation where you got some degree of education, you know?

So all this impacted me, Carl.

Stokely Carmichael, H. Rapp Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, Kathleen Cleaver, all these people passing through, and the local Black proponents of Black culture and those kinds of things.

And then I met Minister Farrakhan.

And also before I finished NCCU, I had a chance to go to Chicago and to listen to and meet the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

As the party grew, more women joined.

Some of the most notable women were Kathleen Cleaver, Ericka Huggins, and Elaine Brown.

Kathleen Cleaver was a former member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, commonly known as SNCC.

Cleaver was the communications secretary and the first female member of the Black Panthers' main decision-making body.

Ericka Huggins had multiple leadership roles, becoming a leader in the Los Angeles chapter and founding the chapter in New Haven, Connecticut.

Back in the 1960s and 70s, the Black Panther Party visited North Korea.

Kathleen Cleaver gave birth to her children in North Korea.

Her daughter actually has a Korean name, Cho Ju-young-hee.

And the Black Panthers said that, you know, this is a model society.