Eldridge Cleaver Petition Campaign

· 1968 · International Committee to Release Eldridge Cleaver · Government Repression

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An urgent information sheet and petition demanding the release of Black Panther Party Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver, whose parole was revoked without a hearing after the April 6, 1968 Oakland police shootout that killed Bobby Hutton and wounded Cleaver. It gives background on the case and instructions for gathering signatures; the verso carries the petition itself. Issued by the International Committee to Release Eldridge Cleaver, 301 Broadway, San Francisco. This copy shows the recto information sheet. Digitized as a searchable (OCR) PDF.