A group of 15 books from the working library of historian Herbert Aptheker, all dealing with some aspect of the African-American experience, each individually described below.
Aptheker (1915-2003), born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia, joined the Communist Party in 1939 and rose to prominence in academia with the publication of American Negro Slave Revolts in 1943. After serving in World War II and the Normandy invasion (commanding..... More