Herbert Aptheker was born on July 31, 1915 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was married to Fay Philippa Aptheker. He died on March 17, 2003 in Mountain View, California, USA.
Black history scholar and literary executor for W.E.B. Du Bois.
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. Du Bois.
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 advisor to 1960s radical and Black Panther
leader Angela Davis.