Bettina Aptheker
| Bettina Aptheker | |
|---|---|
| Born |
2 September 1944 North Carolina, United States |
| Alma mater |
University of California, Berkeley San Jose State University University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Occupation | Activist, educator, author, |
| Spouse(s) | Jack Kurzweil (1965–1978), Kate Miller |
| Children | Two from first marriage |
| Parent(s) | Herbert and Fay Aptheker |
Bettina Fay Aptheker (born September 13, 1944) is an American political activist, radical feminist, professor and author. A former member of the Communist Party USA like her parents, she was active in civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and has worked in developing feminist studies since the late 1970s.
Aptheker was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina to a Jewish family, Fay Philippa Aptheker and Herbert Aptheker, first cousins who had married in Brooklyn. Both parents were political activists; her mother, who had been married before and was 10 years older than her husband, was a union organizer. Her father was a Marxist historian whose first book about slave revolts overturned previous conceptions of enslaved African Americans. He was a major figure in changing the writing of African-American history. Bettina was raised in Brooklyn, New York, where her Jewish parents, children of immigrants, had grown up. Her first job as a teenager was in the home of W.E.B. Du Bois, who was a good friend of her father.
Aptheker obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley. As an activist in the W.E.B. Du Bois Club of the Communist Party USA, she was a leader in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement during the fall of 1964.
Ten years later, she partially retired from political activism and returned to academia for graduate work. In 1976 she completed her master's degree in communications at San José State University, and started teaching there.
Aptheker was a delegate to the June 1964 founding convention of the W.E.B. DuBois Clubs, a Communist Party-sponsored youth organization, held in San Francisco.
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