ABSTRACT
HERBERT APTHEKER (1915-2003) (New York) Radical historian and early writer on the biracial nature of abolitionism. Author of The Negro in the Civil War (1938) and Negro Slave Revolts in the United States (1942), though criticised for exaggerating their nature and extent. Wrote, 1964, that ‘part of the effort to cleanse the United States of racism is to cleanse its educational system of that blight. Certainly, an anti-racist educational system cannot have racist history books; integrated schools require integrated texts.’
