I remember reading around the research project that became Gunnar Myrdal's big book on race. I think Aptheker was initially involved in some of the research but then witch-hunted out. He wrote an (intemperate, IMHO) critique of Myrdal.
In message <s9e37565.056 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown
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> To say a word in Aptheker's defense, at least he joined CofC after the
>1991 CPUSA convention debacle. And he helped to raise a fine daughter who
>teaches a very popular "Intro to Feminism" class at UCSC.
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>http://frontpagemag.com/archives/radosh/2000/rr10-04-00.htm
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>Herbert Aptheker The Strange Case of
>Comrade Aptheker: Laureate of Stalinism
>FrontPageMagazine.com | October 4, 2000
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