Bettina Aptheker
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Bettina Fay Aptheker is an American political activist, radical feminist, professor and author. Aptheker was active in civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and has since worked
Aptheker in 1975
Cover of Aptheker's May 1968 pamphlet, Columbia Inc.
Aptheker with Angela Davis, May 7, 1975
Red diaper baby
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A red diaper baby is a child of parents who were members of the Communist Party USA or the Communist Party of Canada, or were close to the party or sympathetic to its aims.
Bettina Aptheker
…had children in her first marriage. In her memoir, Intimate Politics, (2006), she wrote about growing up in a leftist household, as what was called a "Red Diaper Baby." She was strongly influenced in her activism by that of her parents. She also commented on her father's scholarship. In addition to his commitment to…
Selig Schulberg, a socialist trade unionist from San Francisco, and his son in the International Socialist Review, October 1909