National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions

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 for three days in late March, 1949.[1] It was a controversial conference, picketed by Catholic War Veterans. W. E. B. Du Bois gave an impassioned speech on the final night.[1] The ASP asked Du Bois to represent them at the World Congress of the Partisans of Peace in Paris in April 1949.[1] Du Bois also attended, on behalf of the ASP, the All-Soviet Peace Conference in August 1949.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c d Levering Lewis, David (2009). W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography. Macmillan. pp. 683–687, 684 (Waldorf-Astoria), 685 (speech), 686 (invitation), 687 (Soviet). ISBN 9780805088052. Retrieved 2 August 2020.

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