Answer the following question: Facts: - death place: mountain view , california - notable works: '' history of the negro people in the united states '' american , '' history of the american people '' , '' negro the correspondence of w. e. b. dubois '' , '' slave anti-racism in u.s. history '' revolts '' , '' documentary - caption: herbert aptheker , 1965 - party: communist party usa , peace and freedom party - death date: 17 march 2003 - spouse: fay aptheker -lrb- 1942 -- 1999 -rrb- - children: bettina aptheker - birth date: 31 july 1915 - name: herbert aptheker - occupation: marxist historian , editor , activist - birth place: brooklyn , new york - alma mater: columbia university Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of herbert aptheker .
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herbert aptheker -lrb- july 31 , 1915 -- march 17 , 2003 -rrb- was an american marxist historian and political activist .he wrote more than 50 books , mostly in the fields of african-american history and general u.s. history , most notably , '' american negro slave revolts '' -lrb- 1943 -rrb- , a classic in the field , and the 7-volume '' documentary history of the negro people '' -lrb- 1951 -- 1994 -rrb- .he compiled a wide variety of primary documents supporting study of african-american history .from the 1940s , aptheker was a prominent figure in u.s. scholarly discourse .david horowitz described aptheker as '' the communist party 's most prominent cold war intellectual '' .aptheker was blacklisted in academia during the 1950s because of his communist party membership .