Editing Ford Foundation (section)

=== Arts and free speech ===
The foundation underwrote the [[Fund for the Republic]] in the 1950s. Throughout the 1950s, the foundation provided arts and humanities fellowships that supported the work of figures like [[Josef Albers]], [[James Baldwin (writer)|James Baldwin]], [[Saul Bellow]], [[Herbert Blau]], [[E. E. Cummings]], [[Anthony Hecht]], [[Flannery O'Connor]], [[Jacob Lawrence]], [[Maurice Valency]], [[Robert Lowell]], and [[Margaret Mead]]. In 1961, [[Kofi Annan]] received an educational grant from the foundation to finish his studies at [[Macalester College]] in St. Paul, Minnesota.<ref name="annan">{{cite web| url=http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/projects/commemorative-chairs/annan| title=Kofi Annan| publisher=Roosevelt Institute| access-date=2014-05-14| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140515022219/http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/projects/commemorative-chairs/annan| archive-date=2014-05-15}}</ref>

Under its "Program for Playwrights", the foundation helped to support writers in professional regional theaters such as San Francisco's [[Actor's Workshop]] and offered similar help to Houston's [[Alley Theatre]] and Washington's [[Arena Stage]].<ref name="fowler">{{cite web| last=Fowler| first=Keith Franklin| year=1969| title=A History of the San Francisco Actor's Workshop| volume=I-II| page=830| publisher=Yale School of Drama Doctor of Fine Arts Dissertations, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library| url=http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/HLTransformer/HLTransServlet?stylename=yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&pid=arts:dra.0027&query=&clear-stylesheet-cache=yes&hlon=yes&big=&adv=&filter=&hitPageStart=&sortFields=&view=c01_1#s1| access-date=2012-03-18| archive-date=2013-06-01| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601235030/http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/HLTransformer/HLTransServlet?stylename=yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&pid=arts:dra.0027&query=&clear-stylesheet-cache=yes&hlon=yes&big=&adv=&filter=&hitPageStart=&sortFields=&view=c01_1#s1| url-status=dead}}</ref>