TO #44. Herbert Aptheker was the theoretician of the Communist Party USA for many decades. I challenged him once in 1965 at Temple University and wiped the auditorium’s floor with his ass over the issue of “self determination for the Hungarian people” and their 1956 revolt.
His daughter is Bettina Aptheker, a leader of the Marxist-takenover Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, UC in the mid-1960’s. She is affectionally known by her nickname, “Bettina Batcrapper”.
In 1966, hundreds of communist, Marxist, socialist and non-red professors turned out to honor Aptheker on his birthday and for his research on the Negro/slavery issue. A complete list of these “sponsors/endorsers” can be found at www.keywiki.org, search under “Herbert Aptheker”.
It originally appeared as an exhibit in “Extent of Subversion in Campus Disorders - Part 1, Testimony of Ernesto ???”, 1969, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Sen. Judiciary Committee.
There was a professor at Howard University, I believe his last name was Adams, who did a lot of good first-hand research on the extent of the slave trade between Africa/Europe and the U.S, using original shipping manifests and other related records preserved in the British, Portuguese and Spanish archives and museums, among other places.
He might be worth looking at.