# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-aptheker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:12:43.702Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herbert-aptheker"
name: "Herbert Aptheker"
slug: "herbert-aptheker"
description: "Herbert Aptheker 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 (1943), a classic in the field. He also compiled the 7-volume Documentary History of the Negro People (1951–1994). In addition, he compiled a wide variety of primary documents supporting study of African-American history. He was the literary executor for W. E. B. Du Bois."
tagline: "American Marxist historian and political activist (1915–2003)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1915-07-31"
deathDate: "2003-03-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           9.445540000000001
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump