Herbert Aptheker

Herbert Aptheker

Herbert Aptheker (July 31, 1915 – March 17, 2003) was an American Marxist historian and political activist. He wrote more than 50 books, mostly in the fields of African-American history and general U.S. history, most notably, American Negro Slave Revolts (1943), a classic in the field. He also compiled the 7-volume Documentary History of the Negro People (1951–1994). In addition, he compiled a wide variety of primary documents supporting study of African-American history. He was the literary executor for W. E. B. Du Bois.

AlmaMater
Columbia University
Alma mater
Columbia University
BirthDate
31 July 1915
Birth date
31 July 1915
BirthPlace
Brooklyn, New York
Birth place
Brooklyn, New York
Birth year
1915
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Bettina Aptheker
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Bettina Aptheker
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enHerbert Aptheker (July 31, 1915 – March 17, 2003) was an American Marxist historian and political activist. He wrote more than 50 books, mostly in the fields of African-American history and general U.S. history, most notably, American Negro Slave Revolts (1943), a classic in the field. He also compiled the 7-volume Documentary History of the Negro People (1951–1994). In addition, he compiled a wide variety of primary documents supporting study of African-American history. He was the literary executor for W. E. B. Du Bois.
DeathDate
17 March 2003
Death date
17 March 2003
DeathPlace
Mountain View, California
Death place
Mountain View, California
Death year
2003
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enHerbert Aptheker (July 31, 1915 – March 17, 2003) was an American Marxist historian and political activist. He wrote more than 50 books, mostly in the fields of African-American history and general U.S. history, most notably, American Negro Slave Revolts (1943), a classic in the field. He also compiled the 7-volume Documentary History of the Negro People (1951–1994). In addition, he compiled a wide variety of primary documents supporting study of African-American history. He was the literary executor for W. E. B. Du Bois. From the 1940s, Aptheker was a prominent figure in U.S. scholarly discourse. Aptheker was blacklisted in academia during the 1950s because of his Communist Party membership. He succeeded V. J. Jerome in 1955 as editor of Political Affairs, a communist theory magazine.
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Academia
Activist
African American
African-American history
Alabama
American Civil War
American Institute For Marxist Studies
American League Against War and Fascism
Artillery
Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Science
Bettina Aptheker
Blacklist
Brooklyn
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn Heights, New York
Bryn Mawr College
Category:1915 births
Category:2003 deaths
Category:20th-century American historians
Category:Activists for African-American civil rights
Category:Activists from New York (state)
Category:American anti–Vietnam War activists
Category:American atheists
Category:American male non-fiction writers
Category:American Marxist historians
Category:Columbia University alumni
Category:Erasmus Hall High School alumni
Category:Historians from New York (state)
Category:Historians of African Americans
Category:Historians of the United States
Category:Jewish American historians
Category:Jewish socialists
Category:Members of the Communist Party USA
Category:Peace and Freedom Party politicians
Category:Trade unionists from New York (state)
Category:United States Army officers
Category:United States Army personnel of World War II
Category:Writers from Brooklyn
Christopher Phelps
Columbia College, Columbia University
Columbia University
Communist Party USA
Convict leasing
Daily Worker
Dissociation (psychology)
Doctorate degree
Dunning School
Editor
Erasmus Hall High School
Feminist studies
Food and Tobacco Workers Union
Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Francis Biddle
George Mason University
Georgia (U.S. state)
Great Depression
Guggenheim Fellowship
Historiography
History News Network
History of the Communist Party USA
History of the United States
Intercollegiate League for Industrial Democracy
International Labor Defense
Jew
Jim Crow Laws
Major
Marxist historiography
Marzani & Munsell
Mass organization
Master's degree
McCarthyism
Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Mountain View, California
National Student League
Nat Turner's slave rebellion
New York (state)
Nicholas Murray Butler
Operation Overlord
Oppression
Peace and Freedom Party
Peon
Plantations in the American South
Political Affairs
Reconstruction era
Recovered memory
Seth Low Junior College
Sexual abuse
Slavery
Social science
Southern United States
TELOS (journal)
The New Masses
Thesis
U.S. House of Representatives
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
University of California, Santa Cruz
V. J. Jerome
Vietnam War
Virginia
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Name
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enAmerican Negro Slave Revolts, Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States, History of the American People, The Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois, Anti-Racism in U.S. History
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Activist
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Activist
Occupation
Editor
Occupation
Editor
Occupation
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Marxist historiography
Occupation
Marxist historiography
Party
Communist Party USA
Party
Communist Party USA
Party
Peace and Freedom Party
Party
Peace and Freedom Party
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Spouse
enFay Aptheker
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Category:Activists for African-American civil rights
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Category:American anti–Vietnam War activists
Category:American atheists
Category:American male non-fiction writers
Category:American Marxist historians
Category:Columbia University alumni
Category:Erasmus Hall High School alumni
Category:Historians from New York (state)
Category:Historians of African Americans
Category:Historians of the United States
Category:Jewish American historians
Category:Jewish socialists
Category:Members of the Communist Party USA
Category:Peace and Freedom Party politicians
Category:Trade unionists from New York (state)
Category:United States Army officers
Category:United States Army personnel of World War II
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