19805221Independent Citizen's Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions records19805221Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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The Independent Citizen's Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions (ICCASP) was founded in January 1945 as an lobbying organization that focused on New Deal causes, world peace, and social and economic justice issues. The organization was protective of the causes of the United Nations and against the tactics of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Some of the members of the organization were accused of socialist and Communist leanings; a chapter of the organization was involved in the Hollywood Ten.

The national Chair was sculptor Jo Davidson, serving alongside actor Frederic March and former Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, as Treasurer and Executive Chair, respectively. Other well-known officers included Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Archibald MacLeish, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Paul Robeson, and Frank Sinatra.

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 New Deal, 1933-1939 Peace -- Societies, etc Social action Arts -- Political aspects -- United States Hollywood blacklist Ickes, Harold L (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 Davidson, Jo, 1883-1952 Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 Series I: Newsletters and Broadsides/repositories/2/archival_objects/1711093 Report from Washington Vol. 1, No. 1/repositories/2/archival_objects/171109418 May 194511 Report from Washington Vol. 1, No. 2/repositories/2/archival_objects/171109515 June 194512 Report from Washington Vol. 1, No. 5/repositories/2/archival_objects/17110964 August 194513 Report from Washington Vol. 1, No. 4/repositories/2/archival_objects/171109721 September 194514 Report from Washington Vol. 2, No. 1/repositories/2/archival_objects/17110986 February 194615 Report from Washington "Emergency Action Bulletin"/repositories/2/archival_objects/17110996 March 194616 Report from Washington/repositories/2/archival_objects/17111008 March 194617 Report from Washington/repositories/2/archival_objects/171110122 March 194618 Report from Washington/repositories/2/archival_objects/17111025 April 194619 Report from Washington "A Visit to Your Congressman"/repositories/2/archival_objects/1711103circa May 1946110 Report from Washington/repositories/2/archival_objects/17111043 May 1946111 Report from Washington/repositories/2/archival_objects/171110517 May 1946112"The History of the First Eighteen Months of the ICCASP"/repositories/2/archival_objects/1711106June 1946113 Report from Washington/repositories/2/archival_objects/1711107circa June 1946114 Report from Washington/repositories/2/archival_objects/171110811 July 1946115"The Wallace Letter" (Broadside)/repositories/2/archival_objects/1711109July 1946116Series II: The Independent/repositories/2/archival_objects/1755132June 1945/repositories/2/archival_objects/1755133117August 1945/repositories/2/archival_objects/1755134118October 1945/repositories/2/archival_objects/1755135119January 1946/repositories/2/archival_objects/1755136120February 13, 1946/repositories/2/archival_objects/1755137121March 5, 1946/repositories/2/archival_objects/1755138122April 15, 1946/repositories/2/archival_objects/1755139123April 27, 1945/repositories/2/archival_objects/1755140124Series III: Reports/repositories/2/archival_objects/1755141Letter and activities report signed by Hannah Dorner, Executive Director/repositories/2/archival_objects/1755142November 1945125Your Congressional Record: A Reference Roundup/repositories/2/archival_objects/17551431945125Series IV: Atomic Energy Act/repositories/2/archival_objects/1755144Petition form to show support for the McMahon (Atomic Energy) Bill, S1717/repositories/2/archival_objects/1755145February 1946127This is Your Problem: Control the Atomic Bomb! How?, pamphlet, Midwest Division/repositories/2/archival_objects/17551461946128