National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions
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The National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions (NCASP or ASP) was a United Stated 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 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 Bos 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.
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 gave an impassioned speech on the final night. The ASP asked Du Bos 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
All-Soviet Peace Conference
The All-Soviet Peace Conference was a conference held in Moscow in 1949. Attendees included W. E. B. Du Bois....
in August 1949.