Bettina aptheker biography

Bettina Fay Aptheker (born September 13, 1944) is an American activist, author, feminist, and professor.

Biography

Early years and education

Aptheker was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina to the first cousins Fay Philippa Aptheker and Herbert Aptheker, a radical activist and Marxist historian.

She was raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her first job as a teenager was in the home of W. E. B. Du Bois, a good friend of her father's.

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Political career

Aptheker was a delegate to the June 1964 founding convention of the W.E.B. DuBois Clubs, a Communist Party-sponsored youth organization, held in San Francisco.

Aptheker was a member of the governing National Committee of the CPUSA and was remembered by California party leader Dorothy Healey in her 1990 memoir as "one of the liveliest of the young people who rose to prominence in the party in the 1960s and also one of the warmest human beings I've ever met."

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