15 Facts About Bettina Aptheker

Bettina Fay Aptheker was born on September 2,1944 and is an American political activist, radical feminist, professor and author.

Bettina Aptheker's father was a Marxist historian, whose first book about slave revolts overturned previous conceptions of enslaved African Americans.

Bettina Aptheker was a major figure in changing the writing of African American history.

Bettina Aptheker was raised in Brooklyn, New York, where her Jewish parents, children of immigrants, had grown up.

Bettina Aptheker obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Bettina Aptheker rose in influence to become a member of the governing National Committee of the CPUSA.

Bettina Aptheker denounced the invasion and voted with the minority; she opposed her father Herbert Aptheker over this issue.

Bettina Aptheker wrote a book about the trial, which was published in 1974.

In 1965 Bettina Aptheker married her fellow student Jack Kurzweil, who was a Communist activist.

Since October 1979, Bettina Aptheker has been with Kate Miller, her life partner.

Bettina Aptheker expressed anguish and sorrow, and they eventually reconciled.

Bettina Aptheker's assertion generated considerable controversy in the academic community because of her father's stature as a scholar and Communist.

Bettina Aptheker included the results of an interview with Kate Miller, who had been present during Aptheker's 1999 conversation with her father about the abuse, and confirmed her account.

Bettina Aptheker received the 2004 "Award for Excellence in Education" by the California chapter of the National Organization for Women.

Bettina Aptheker received the 2017 John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities and the inaugural appointee of the endowed Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies.