Abstract
This article presents a historical analysis of the 1959 educators’ manifesto “Mais uma vez convocados: manifesto ao povo e ao governo” [Summoned once again: manifesto to the people and to the government], made public in response to the proposal of an amendment to the Draft Law of Bases and Guidelines of Education. The text examines the foundations of the manifesto’s memory, investigating the reasons and effects of its predominant explanation through its relations to the Pioneers Manifesto and to the Campaign in Defense of Public School. It reconstructs events, agents and meanings, understanding the manifesto as a collective and coordinated action of intellectuals aiming at certain political ends. It concludes by highlighting the manifesto’s specificity and historicity, trimming off historiographical misunderstandings that resulted from baseless repetitions and approaches that left gaps in its understanding as a singular event.
INTELLECTUALS; DOCUMENTS; PRESS; HISTORY OF EDUCATION