The National Council of (the) Arts, Sciences and Professions (NCASP or ASP) was a United States-based socialist organization of the 1950s.
The ASP sponsored the
Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, held at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in
New York City
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for 3 days in late March, 1949.
[
] It was a controversial conference, picketed by Catholic War Veterans.
W. E. B. Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American-Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up i ...
gave an impassioned speech on the final night.
[ The ASP asked Du Bois to represent them at the World Congress of the Partisans of Peace in Paris in April 1949.][ Du Bois also attended, on behalf of the ASP, the All-Soviet Peace Conference in August 1949.][
]
See also
* Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions
* Progressive Citizens of America
References
External links
FBI report
1940s establishments in the United States
Anti–nuclear weapons movement
Peace organizations based in the United States
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