Uma reação conservadora no campo intelectual:

a Fundação da Promoção Social (FPS) e o Recife da década de 1960

Abstract

This article focuses on the participation of intellectuals in the political disputes in Pernambuco in the 1960s. Our focus is on the reactions of the conservative camp to the implementation of the Movimento de Cultura Popular (MCP), in May 1960. A major educational and cultural project launched by the administration of mayor Miguel Arraes, the Movimento de Cultura Popular reorganized the educational system of the Pernambuco´s capital in addition to redefining the bases of its cultural policy. In the following pages, we delve into the process of designing and launching a project similar to the MCP, although guided by opposing educational and cultural concepts: the Fundação da Promoção Social (FPS). We investigated it’s trajectory since the first forms that the FPS took, until reaching its final format and establishing contacts with similar institutions in other states. Newspapers and government documents were used as documentary references.