Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998) was an artist and activist best known as the Minister of Information and the Head of the International Section of the Black Panther Party. His influence can be seen throughout the Panthers’ prolific output of materials and actions from the mid-1960s through the end of the 1970s, including The Black Panther (the group’s official newspaper, of which Cleaver was Editor), the 1968 ambush of the Oakland police, and the party’s alliance with North Korea and BPP publications, which lead to the reprinting of several of Kim II Sung’s texts.
Revolution and Education is a 1968 pamphlet by Cleaver that contains an essay on generational education. In it, Cleaver posits that an individual must come to terms with two worlds, the natural and the social; he then extends this to discuss the difficulty of navigating racial tensions and discrimination (in both of these worlds), insisting on the need for information to be passed down from generation to generation. To do so, he concludes, is the only way to survive the ongoing war against Black people.