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
The World Peace Council (WPC) is an international organization with the self-described goals of advocating for universal disarmament, sovereignty and independence and peaceful co-existence, and campaigns against imperialism, weapons of mass de ...
, held at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
for 3 days in late March, 1949.
[
] It was a controversial conference, picketed by Catholic War Veterans.
W. E. B. Du Bois 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
The World Peace Council (WPC) is an international organization with the self-described goals of advocating for universal disarmament, sovereignty and independence and peaceful co-existence, and campaigns against imperialism, weapons of mass ...
in Paris in April 1949.[ Du Bois also attended, on behalf of the ASP, the ]All-Soviet Peace Conference The Soviet Peace Committee (SPC, also known as Soviet Committee for the Defense of Peace, SCDP, russian: Советский Комитет Защиты Мира) was a state-sponsored organization responsible for coordinating peace movements active ...
in August 1949.[
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See also
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* Progressive Citizens of America
Progressive Citizens of America (PCA) was a social-democratic and democratic socialist American political organization formed in December 1946 that advocated progressive policies, which worked with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) ...
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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