Ford Hall Forum Documents
The section includes digitized season programs, newsletters, and booklets that document the history of the Ford Hall Forum .
For a full list of the collection, including non-digitized items, browse the Ford Hall Forum Collection Finding Aid
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Ford Hall Forum program, March, 1936-1937 Season
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Program for the March line up of the 1936-1937 Ford hall Forum season. Speakers include Harry A. Overstreet, Langston Hughes, Jerome Davis, Dr. Helgo W. Culemann, Count Raoul de Roussy de Sales, and Salvador de Madariaga. Inside of program include speaker portraits and biographies. Back cover has lecture list for the entire season.
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Ford Hall Folks Annual Old-Fashioned Party and Frolic Postcard, 1935
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Postcard for the Ford Hall Folks Annual Old-Fashioned Party and Frolic, held at Kingsley Hall, Ford Building, Tuesday, February 26, 1935, 6PM. Postcard notes catering by old friends and famous Swedish caterers Larsen & Ericksen, serving chicken pie dinner with all the fixings. Price of admissions is 75 cents. Back of postcard includes Ford Hall logo, postage paid stamp, and cartoon.
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Ford Hall Forum program, November, 1933-1934 Season
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Program for the November line up of the 1933-1934 Ford hall Forum season. Speakers include Scott Nearing, Sherwood Eddy, Dorothy Thompson, and Professor Friedrich Schoenemann. Schoenemann's lecture, entitled "Why I Believe in the Hitler Government," is of particular note. The lecture drew protest from the Boston community, which resulted in a riot between some 5,000 protesters and police on Beacon Hill. Inside of program include speaker portraits and biographies. Back cover has lecture list for the entire season.
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Ford Hall Forum program, 20th Season, March, 1928
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Program for the March line up of the 20th Ford Hall Forum season, 1928, under the auspices of the Boston Baptist Social Union. Speakers include Princess Alexandra Kropotkin, Dr. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, Anna Louise Strong, and Morris Hillquit. Inside of program includes speaker profiles, song lyrics, and Ford Hall advertisement depicting the Statue of Liberty.
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Ford Hall Forum program, February, 1928
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Program for the February 1928 Ford Hall line up. Speakers include Thurgood Marshall, McGeorge Bundy, Mark DeWolfe Howe, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, and Dr. Oscar Handlin. Originally, February 22nd speaker was Walter P. Reuther. His name has been crossed out and replaced with the stamped name of Oxnam. Inside of program include speaker portraits and biographies. Back cover has lecture list for the entire season.
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Ford Hall Forum program, 19th Season, December/January, 1925-1926
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Program for the December/January line up of the 19th Ford Hall Forum season, 1925-1926, under the auspices of the Boston Baptist Social Union. Speakers include Abraham Myerson, John Hayes Holmes, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edmund Vance Cookie . Inside of program includes further comments on speakers and song lyrics.
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Ford Hall Forum program, 17th Season, Mid-Winter, 1923-1924
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Program for the mid-winter line up of the 17th Ford Hall Forum season, 1923-1924, under the auspices of the Boston Baptist Social Union. Speakers include Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Hayes Holmes, Von Schulze-Gavernitz, Louis Wolsey, and Margaret Slattery. Inside of program includes further comments on speakers and song lyrics.
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Ford Hall Forum program, November/December 1922-1923
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Program for November/December of the 16th Ford Hall Forum season, 1922-1923, under the auspices of the Boston Baptist Social Union. Speakers include Margaret Slattery, Roger N. Baldwin, Chief Skiuhushu, James Harvey Robinson, and Henry C. Vedder. Inside of program includes further comments on speakers and song lyrics.
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Ford Hall Forum lecture program, November/December 1920-1921
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Program for November/December of the 14th Ford Hall Meetings season, 1920-1921, conducted by the Boston Baptist Social Union. Speakers include Mrs. Marietta L. Johnson, Bishop Francis J. McConnell, Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, John Haynes Holmes, Charles Zueblin, Professor Arthur D. Rees, and Professor Nathaniel Schmidt. Inside of program includes song lyrics.
