Date of Birth
31 July 1915,
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Date of Death
17 March 2003, Mountain View, California, USA (pneumonia)
Spouse
| Fay Philippa Aptheker |
(1942 - 1999) (her death) 1 child |
Trivia
Black history scholar and literary executor for W.E.B. Dubois.
Marxist historian best known for his three-volume "Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States" and for editing the correspondence and writing of his mentor, W. E. B. DuBois.
One of the first scholars to denounce American military involvement in Vietnam.
Campaigned and lost a race for the House of Representatives from Brooklyn in 1966 on the Peace and Freedom ticket.
Father of Bettina Aptheker, a former leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, and friend and adviser to 1960s radical and Black Panther leader Angela Davis.
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