The Radical Activist Armed With Two Degrees
New York Times Co./Getty ImagesKathleen Cleaver. 1968. Born Kathleen Neal in 1945 to two well-educated parents in Texas, Cleaver spent her early childhood between the segregated deep South and abroad. Her fathers work in the Foreign Service meant that she lived in Tuskegee, Ala. as well as North Carolina, the Philippines, India, and West Africa.