Herbert Aptheker Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
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, and the 7-volume Documentary History of the Negro People (1951–1994). He compiled a wide variety of primary documents supporting study of African-American history.From the 1940s, Aptheker was a prominent figure in U.S. scholarly discourse. David Horowitz described Aptheker as "the Communist Party’s most prominent Cold War intellectual". Aptheker was blacklisted in academia during the 1950s because of his Communist Party membership.
Fought in World War II in the US Army, held the rank of major in a field artillery unit.
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Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 13-14. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
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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.
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Campaigned and lost a race for the House of Representatives from Brooklyn in 1966 on the Peace and Freedom ticket.
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One of the first scholars to denounce American military involvement in Vietnam.
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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.
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Black history scholar and literary executor for W.E.B. Du Bois.
Known for movies
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property 2003 as Himself
$11 Million