Three years after Cleaver was born , her father , Ernest Neal , accepted a job as the director of the Rural Life Council of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama .
They moved to a predominately black community beside the campus .
Three years after Cleaver was born , her father , Ernest Neal , accepted a job as the director of the Rural Life Council of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama , and they moved to a predominately black community beside the campus .