- Call number
- MssCol 23006
- Physical description
- .1 linear feet (1 folder)
- Preferred Citation
Eldridge Cleaver radio transcript and letter from Timothy Leary, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
In 1970, Timothy Leary and Rosemary Leary traveled to Algeria, where they stayed as the guests of Eldridge Cleaver and the Black Panther Party. This collection contains a transcript of a tape-recorded statement titled "Cleaver from Algiers," made on Pacifica Radio in 1971. In the statement, Cleaver renounced any alliance between the Black Panthers and Leary, and also renounced involvement with psychedelic drug culture as a whole. Also included is a copy of a typed letter from Leary to Jann Wenner, publisher of Rolling Stone, written from Algiers on December 27, 1970.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Purchased from Beat Books, 2014.
Processing information
Compiled by Kit Fluker, 2015
Key terms
Names
- Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998 (creator)
- Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996 (creator)
- Black Panther Party
Using the collection
Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328