Collection: American Bicentennial Collection | The Fort Worth Library Local History Archives and Genealogy Collection

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of two binders divided into folders concerning the celebration of the American Bicentennial in Fort Worth. The folders are arranged in the same order as they were in the binders. Two folders consist of copies of the Bicentennial Review and the program for the city of Fort Worth celebration of the American Bicentennial. The last four folders consist of materials pulled from the Fort Worth 150 Committee, which was organized to celebrate Fort Worth's 150th anniversary. The Package was originally catalogue but it was removed from the database and placed in the Archives. The extent of the collection is 2 boxes (.75 linear feet), and the date range is 1973-1975.

Dates

1973 - 1976

History

Gaylord/SIRS created the Bicentennial special Program Package for the American Issues Forum in 1975. The American Issues Forum was part of the Bicentennial Celebration funded by the National Endowment for the Humanitities, "[t]hrough which the American people [would] have an opportunity to reconsider their origins and the philosophical basis on which the American experiment was established." Each community was to decide if they wanted to hold a discussion group based on the American Issues Forum guidelines.