Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003

LC control no.	n 80016937
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1915-07-31
Death date	2003-03-17
Place of birth	Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Place of death	Mountain View (Calif.)
Affiliation	Columbia University Communist Party of the United States of America American Institute for Marxist Studies Stanford University
Profession or occupation	Historians Political activists Soldiers
Found in	The Negro in the Civil war, c1938. New York Times, March 20, 2003 (Herbert Aptheker; prolific Marxist historian, edited corresp. of W.E.B. DuBois; b. July 31, 1915 in Brooklyn; d. Monday [Mar. 17] in Mountain View, Calif.) Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed November 17, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Aptheker, Herbert; historian, political activist, communist, soldier; born 31 July 1915 in Brooklyn, New York, United States; MA and PhD in history from Columbia University (1930s); joined the Communist Party (1939) and remained its chief American theoretical defender until he resigned his membership (1991); wrote and edited several Marxist publications and worked as the executive director of the American Institute for Marxist Studies; served in the U.S. Army during World War II but was dishonorably discharged (1950) for his radical writings; led a controversial delegation to Hanoi (1965); met W. E. B. Du Bois (1940s) and became the de facto custodian of the Du Bois papers, which ultimately were given to the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) Library; assisted in editing and publication of the Martin Luther King papers at Stanford University; died 17 March 2003 in Mountain View, California, United States)
Associated language	eng