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A pioneering work that demolished the widespread claims that African Americans accepted slavery and were passive. Exposed the true nature of slavery.
Presenting a collection of essays by Aptheker, including topics like the maroons, black abolitionists, Reconstruction, and W.E.B. Du Bois, this book shows the critical connection between political commitment and the advancement of scholarship, and points to Aptheker's central place in the development of African American studies.
Contains primary source material.
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17. Yale Historians and the Challenge to Academic Freedom -- 18. The American Institute for Marxist Studies -- 19. Conflict and Compromise -- 20. Black Power and the Freeing of Angela Davis -- 21. An Assault on Honor -- 22. Party Control -- 23. Renewal and Endings -- 24. Rebellion in a Haunted House -- 25. Comrades of a Different Sort -- 26. Now It's Your Turn -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover
Scholar, author, editor, teacher, reformer and civil rights leader, W.E.B. Du Bois (1888-1963) was a major figure in American life and one of the earliest proponents of equality for black Americans. This is the first volume of three and incorporates correspondence from 1877 to 1934.
Set amidst the political upheaval of the McCarthy trials, the Vietnam War, and the rise of the women's movement, Intimate Politics is a courageous and uncompromising account of one woman's personal and political transformation, and a fascinating portrayal of a key chapter in our nation's history. At eight years old, Bettina Aptheker watched her family's politics play out in countless living rooms across the country when her father, historian and U.S. Communist Party leader Herbert Aptheker, testified on television in front of the House on Un-American Activities Committee in 1953. Born into one of the most influential U.S. Communist families whose friends included W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robes...
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This is a new release of the original 1955 edition.