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|formation    = 1951
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|headquarters = [[New York City]], [[United States]]
|leader_title = President
|leader_name  = [[Robert M. Hutchins]]
|key_people   = {{hlist|[[Wilbur Hugh Ferry]]|[[Clifford P. Case]]|[[Clinton Rossiter]]}}
| revenue = [[Ford Foundation]] (funder)
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The '''Fund for the Republic''' (1951–1959) was an organization created by the [[Ford Foundation]]<ref name=Draper>
{{cite book| first = Theodore| last = Draper| author-link = Theodore Draper| title = American Communism and Soviet Russia| publisher = Routledge| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=BCMxDwAAQBAJ| pages= xv–xvi| date = 5 July 2017| accessdate = 8 September 2018| isbn = 9781351532839}}</ref><ref name=Manifesto>{{cite web |url=http://www.americanhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_II |title=Humanist Manifesto II |publisher=American Humanist Association |accessdate=October 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020110719/http://www.americanhumanist.org/humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_II |archive-date=October 20, 2012 }}</ref> and dedicated to protecting freedom of speech and other civil liberties in the United States.<ref name=siracusa>{{cite book|last1=Siracusa|first1=Joseph M.|title=The Kennedy Years|year=2004|publisher=Facts On File, Inc.|location=New York}}</ref>  In 1959, the Fund moved from [[New York City]] to [[Santa Barbara, California]], and changed its name to the [[Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions]] (CSDI).<ref name=joandidion>{{cite book|last1=Didion|first1=Joan| author-link = Joan Didion|title=Slouching Towards Bethlehem| chapter=California Dreaming |year=1968|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|location=New York}}</ref>

==History==
With the growth of [[McCarthyism]] and the [[Second Red Scare]], the subject of communism in America began to loom large in the public consciousness.<ref name=Draper/> In 1951, [[Robert M. Hutchins]] became the president of the Fund for the Republic, a non-profit organization whose basic objectives were to research and analyze civil liberties and civil rights. In 1954, [[Wilbur Hugh Ferry]] became Fund vice president, responsible for administration and public relations, and moved with the Fund to Santa Barbara 1959.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1959-06-05|title=Skipping Around|pages=2|work=The Des Moines Register|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/76172070/skipping-around/|access-date=2021-04-21|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

In August 1953, [[Clifford P. Case]] resigned from the [[United States House of Representatives|House]] to become president of the [[Ford Foundation]]'s Fund for the Republic.<ref name=siracusa/> He served in that position until March 1954.<ref name=congress>{{cite news|work=[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]|title=CASE, Clifford Philip, (1904–1982)|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=c000220}}</ref>

[[Walter Millis]], former editorial and staff writer for the ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]'' (1924–1954), became a staff member of the Fund for the Republic (1954–1968).{{citation needed|date=September 2018}}

[[Bethuel M. Webster]] served as legal counsel to the Fund and represented the Fund in hearings before the notorious Un-American Activities Committee of the House of Representatives ([[HUAC]]). During this period he also defended William Remington, an economist and alleged Communist accused of espionage.{{citation needed|date=September 2018}}

Political scientist [[Clinton Rossiter]] of [[Cornell University]] directed the Fund for the Republic, which aimed to publish a full-scale history of American communism. It engaged [[David A. Shannon]] of the [[University of Wisconsin]] to write the history of the [[Communist Party USA]] during the post-war period.  In 1952, it engaged [[Theodore Draper]] to write a monograph on the party's early years.  Draper had already been thinking of writing a "traditional" history of the Party, based upon documentary sources and meeting scholarly standards.<ref name=Draper/> In 1954, Millis became the director of the Fund's study of [[demilitarization]].{{citation needed|date=September 2018}}  [[Robert W. Iversen]] wrote a book for the fund called ''Communism and the Schools'', published in 1959.<ref name=LOC>
{{cite book
| first = Robert W.
| last = Iversen
| author-link = Robert W. Iversen
| title = The Communists & the Schools
| publisher = Harcourt, Brace
| pages = 423
| date = 1959
| lccn = 59011769
}}</ref><ref name=NYTreview>
{{cite news
| first = Fred M.
| last = Hechinger
| title = Subversion that Failed
| work = New York Times
| url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/10/25/91426774.pdf
| date = 25 October 1959
| accessdate = 8 September 2018}}</ref>

Other fellows and grant recipients include Rev. [[Glenn E. Smiley]] et al. for ''Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story'' (1957),<ref name=Aydin>Aydin, Andrew. [https://creativeloafing.com/content-185638-cover-story-the-comic-book-that-changed-the "The comic book that changed the world: Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story's vital role in the Civil Rights Movement,"] ''Creative Loafing'' (Aug. 1, 2013).</ref> [[David Fellman]] (1957–1958),<ref>1966, February 2, "Mid-Year Grads Receive Degrees," ''The Daily Nebraskan,'' Lincoln, Nebraska, Volume 81, No. 56, p. 7</ref> and [[Norman St John-Stevas]] (1958).<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9124613/Lord-St-John-of-Fawsley.html|title=Obituary: Lord St John of Fawsley|date=5 March 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120827111128/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9124613/Lord-St-John-of-Fawsley.html|archive-date=27 August 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/|title=FreeBMD Home Page|website=www.freebmd.org.uk}}</ref>

==Trustees==
* Edward Lamb<ref name=Manifesto/>
* [[Frederick M. Nicholas]]

==Awards==

In 1956, the Fund may have{{clarify|date=September 2018}} set up the [[Robert E. Sherwood]] Award, given to [[Jerome Coopersmith]] for writing the episode{{clarify|date=September 2018|reason=Episode of what?}} "I Was Accused" (based on the true story of actor [[George Voskovec]], interned at [[Ellis Island]] during days of [[McCarthyism]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Cold War Museum|url = http://www.coldwar.org/articles/50s/senatorjosephmccarthy.asp|website = www.coldwar.org|access-date = 2016-01-31|archivedate = 2016-01-21|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160121155729/http://www.coldwar.org/articles/50s/senatorjosephmccarthy.asp|url-status = deviated}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Brooklyn College Television and Radio|url = http://www.bctvr.org/faculty/faculty_aap.php|website = www.bctvr.org|access-date = 2016-01-31}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite news|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=20QEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA5|title = The Fund for the Republic is pleased to announce the Winners of the 1956 ROBERT E. SHERWOOD AWARDS|newspaper = The Billboard|date = June 30, 1956|page = 5}}</ref>

==Publications==

* ''Report on Blacklisting: I. Movies'' by [https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/30/archives/john-cogley-dies-at-60-expert-on-catholicism.html John Cogley] (1956)<ref>
{{cite book
| first = John 
| last = Cogley
| title = Report on Blacklisting: Movies
| publisher = Fund for the Republic
| url = https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7161163M/Report_on_blacklisting.
| date = 1956
| ol = 7161163M
| accessdate = 1 July 2020}}</ref>
* ''Report on Blacklisting: II. Radio-Television'' by John Cogley (1956)<ref>
{{cite book
| first = John 
| last = Cogley
| title = Report on Blacklisting: Radio-Television
| publisher = Fund for the Republic
| url = https://archive.org/details/reportonblacklis00coglrich
| date = 1956
| accessdate = 3 March 2018}}</ref>
* ''The Roots of American Communism'' by [[Theodore Draper]] (1957)<ref>
{{cite book
| first = Theodore
| last = Draper
| author-link = Theodore Draper
| title = The Roots of American Communism
| publisher = Viking
| url = https://archive.org/details/rootsofamericanc0000unse
| url-access = registration
| date = 1957
| accessdate = 8 September 2018}}</ref>
* ''Economic Power and the Free Society'' by [[Adolf A. Berle]] (1957)
* ''American Civil Liberties in the Foreign Press: A Study Conducted Under the Auspices of the Association for Education in Journalism, with Financial Support from the Fund for the Republic'' by [[Douglas Waples]] (1957)
* ''Communism and the Schools'' by [[Robert W. Iversen]] (1959)<ref name=LOC/>
* ''The Art of Government: Reform and Organization Politics in Philadelphia'' by James Reichly (1959)<ref>{{cite book|last=Reichly |first=James |title=The Art of Government: Reform and Organization Politics in Philadelphia |series=A report to the Fund for the Republic |date=1959 |publisher=Fund for The Republic |location = New York, New York |url = https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001150728 |oclc = 994205 }}</ref>
* ''A New Philosophy for Labor'' by [[Gus Tyler]] (1959)
* ''Taste and the Censor in Television'' by [[Charles Winick]] (1959)
* ''The Corporation and the Economy'' by Wilbur Hugh Ferry (1959)
* ''American Communism and Soviet Russia'' by Theodore Draper (1960)<ref name=Draper/>
* ''Medicine: An Interview by Donald McDonald with Herbert Ratner, M.D.'' (1962)<ref>''Medicine: An Interview by Donald McDonald with Herbert Ratner, M.D.'' One of a Series of Interviews on the American Character. Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Comment by Scott Buchanan. Santa Barbara, California: Fund for the Republic, May, 1962.</ref>
* ''The Economy Under Law'' by Wilbur Hugh Ferry (1961)
* ''Caught in the Horn of Plenty'' by Wilbur Hugh Ferry (1962)
* ''What Price Peace'' by Wilbur Hugh Ferry (1963)
* ''Masscom as Educator'' by Wilbur Hugh Ferry (1966)
* ''Farewell to Integration'' by Wilbur Hugh Ferry (1967)
* ''Tonic and Toxic Technology'' by Wilbur Hugh Ferry (1967)
* ''The Police State is Here'' by Wilbur Hugh Ferry (1969)
* ''The Center Magazine'' Volume IX Number 4 (July/August 1976)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External sources==

* {{cite book
| first = Thomas C.
| last = Reeves
| author-link = Thomas C. Reeves
| title = Freedom and the Foundation: The Fund for the Republic in the Era of McCarthyism
| publisher = Knopf
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pB_va0AHuGwC
| date = 1969
| accessdate = 8 September 2018| isbn = 9780307828897
}}</ref>
* {{cite book
| last = Kelly 
| first = Frank K. 
| title = Court of Reason – Robert Hutchins and the Fund for the Republic
| publisher = Free Press
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=nXRdAAAAIAAJ
| date = 1981
| accessdate = 8 September 2018| isbn = 9780029180303 
}}
* [http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/detail.html?id=PACSCL_PRIN_MUDD_MC059 Fund for the Republic Records] at [https://library.princeton.edu/special-collections/ Princeton University Library Special Collections]

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