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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.

Fought in World War II in the US Army, held the rank of major in a field artillery unit.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 13-14. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.