Series 1:
Civil Liberties Campaigns
1958-1967
Scope and Contents
This series includes materials from San Franciscans for Academic Freedom in Education (SAFE.) Records comprise correspondence,
fund raising actions, bank statements, mailing lists, and a survey made of subpoenaed teachers. Also included are correspondence,
drafts of articles and reports, and other materials related to Bierman's activities with anti-HUAC groups, as well as printed
materials from these groups. There are two additional folders on films: HUAC's "Operation Abolition," and a proposed video
series for PBS titled "The Vocal Generation" (not produced), and several folders of clippings collected by Bierman, covering
the years 1959-1966. Additonal materials pertain to other civil liberties campaigns from the early 1960s in which Bierman
participated concurrently with his anti-HUAC activities. These campaigns included Californians Against State Executions (1960-1961);
an ad opposing Richard Nixon's campaign for California governor (1962); support to Pacifica Foundation (KPFA), an investigative
target of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (1963), and support to victims given harsh sentences in the San Francisco
sit-in trials (1964).
Arrangement
The Civil Liberties Campaigns series is arranged chronologically.
box 1, folders 1-5
Correspondence, Petitions and Drafts
1960-1967, undated
box 1, folder 6
"Operation Abolition" Film Documentation
1960
box 1, folder 7
"The Vocal Generation", Film Proposal for KQED/PBS Series
1960
box 1, folders 9-11
Pamphlets and Printed Materials
1958-1967
box 2, folder 1
Pamphlets and Printed Materials - Collection of Editorials & Resolutions..."
1960-1961
box 2, folders 2-3
San Franciscans for Academic Freedom in Education (SAFE)
1959-1960, undated
box 2, folder 8
Survey of Subpoenaed Teachers
1959
box 2, folders 9-11, box 3, folders 1-2
box 3, folder 3
Californians Against State Executions (CASE)
1960-1961
box 3, folder 4
Nixon for Governor, Ad Protesting His Attack on 5th Amendment
1962
box 3, folder 5
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee - Investigation of Pacifica Foundation
1963
Series 2:
American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
1957-1966
Scope and Contents
This series includes Bierman's papers on union organizing on California State University campuses. Documents pertain to issues
of collective bargaining and organizing, studies on teachers' salaries, and academic freedom. The focus of the series is on
the organizing of Local 1352, the San Francisco State College Chapter of the American Federation of Teachers. Additional material
reflects organizing activity throughout the state college system. It includes a draft constitution, correspondence, circular
letters, and membership and faculty lists. There is also printed material and publications generated by the California Federation
of Teachers and two files of news clippings.
Arrangement
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) series is arranged chronologically.
box 3, folder 7
Association of California State College Professors (ACSCP)
1963-1966
California Federation of Teachers
box 3, folder 8
College Council
1964-1966
box 3, folder 9
Publications - Sacramento Bulletin
1963-1964
box 3, folder 11
Academic Freedom - Articles, Statements, Clippings
1957-1963
box 3, folder 12
Lieberman for AFT President
1958-1962, undated
San Francisco State College Federation of Teachers, Local 1352
box 3, folder 13, box 4, folders 1-4
box 4, folder 7
Membership Roster
1965, undated
box 4, folder 10
Clippings, Collective Bargaining
1959-1965
Series 3:
United Professors of California (UPC)
1966-1984
Scope and Contents
This series includes materials pertaining to the United Professors of California (UPC), the statewide college faculty union
emerging from an alliance between the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the Association of California State College
Professors (ACSCP) in 1970. The effort to organize the California college was driven by the AFT, which began a collective
bargaining campaign, in conjunction with its locals at San Francisco State, San Jose State and Long Beach State. From 1970
to 1978, UPC worked on a collective bargaining bill for college faculty passed through the California state legislature. Bierman,
former AFT College Council member, served as one of the first UPC presidents. Included in this series are materials pertaining
to the San Francisco State College strike, to a number of bills reflecting faculty concerns, to the state budget and educational
budget cuts, to rival organizations, and more.
Arrangement
The United Professors of California (UPC) series is arranged chronologically.
box 4, folder 11
1966-1967
Contents
Correspondence regarding articles appearing in local news outlets about the San Francisco State College Strike, opinion ballot
of Associated Students SFSC, memos on administrative reorganization of SFSC, and statements on pressing issues at SFSC.
box 4, folder 12
1968
Contents
Editorials by KCBS News Radio 74 on the San Francisco State College strike, Bierman's correspondence with S. I. Hayakawa,
Willie L. Brown Jr., and clippings regarding California State University system budget issues.
box 4, folder 13
Questionnaires on Teaching Conditions
undated
box 4, folder 14
San Francisco State College Strike Correspondence
1969
box 5, folder 1
San Francisco State Strike Aftermath
1969
box 5, folder 2
Constitutional Convention - Faculty, Senate
1969
box 5, folder 3
1969
Contents
Press releases, AFT newsletters, memos, clippings, and comments on Governor Reagan's budget proposal by the College Council,
AFT.
box 5, folder 4
1970
Contents
Includes pamphlets and clippings on San Francisco State College Strike, and AFT Local newsletter. Other mixed materials are
foldered and labeled "Urban Existence".
box 5, folder 6
Student Evaluation - Faculty Reappointment and Advancement
1970-1972
box 5, folder 7
1971
Contents
Memos, comments on tenure proposals, clippings on grievance procedures, senate bills regarding public employees, correspondence,
and news releases on issues of higher education.
box 5, folder 8
Meetings and Conventions
1971-1972
box 6, folder 1
1972
Contents
Memos, correspondence and reports on UPC internal business and membership, California Community Colleges, lobbying activities
against Reagan's veto of salary increase and other proposed legislation and executive actions, grievance procedures, salary
structure revisions, effective representation of California State College Faculty, and more.
box 6, folder 2
Stanislaus State College
1972
box 6, folder 3
Correspondence
1971-1972, undated
box 6, folders 4-5
California State University Budget
1971-1973
box 7, folder 1
Political Action
1972-1973
box 7, folder 2
Survey of Faculty Attitudes
1972-1973
box 7, folders 5-6
1974-1975
Contents
Correspondence, memos, administrative reviews, newsletters, news releases. Topics include resignations, educational policies,
definition of roles within the organizations, salaries, leadership, and more.
box 7, folder 7
1975-1976
Contents
Memos, correspondence and newsletters. Topics include part-time and temporary faculty, meet and confer between UPC and the
Governor, procedural matters, M & O Growth Program, collective bargaining law for public employees, affirmative action, and
more.
box 7, folder 8
State Election Campaign
1976
box 7, folder 9
Internal Business and Planning
1976
box 7, folder 10
Executive Council, California Federation of Teachers (CFT)
1976
box 7, folders 12-13
Academic Freedom Committee - Legal Materials
1976-1977
box 7, folder 14, box 8, folder 1
1977
Contents
Newsletters, correspondence, memos and proposals. Topics include cooperation with the National Education Association (NEA),
accountability, auditing, amendments of the Government Code, Sam Wellbaum vs. the Trustees of the California State Colleges,
proposed meeting between AFT and Governor, and more.
box 8, folders 3-4
AB 1091 - Bargaining on the Law
1977-1978
box 8, folder 5
United Professors of California San Francisco State University Local 1352, AFT-AFL/CIO
1977-1978
box 8, folder 6
Personnel Report
1977-1978
box 8, folder 8
1978
Contents
Correspondence, memos, newsletters, reports, news releases, clippings. Topics include internal procedural issues, membership,
elections, legal services, UPC/OPEU contract, revisions of executive order 240 on grievances, Proposition 13 and faculty organizing,
AB 1091, and more.
box 8, folder 9
Affirmative Action and Anti-Discrimination Conference
1978
box 8, folder 10
State Election Campaign
1978
box 8, folder 11
"Unit Determination" Issue
1978
box 8, folder 13
State Budget - Proposed Educational Budget Cuts
1978-1980
box 8, folder 14, box 9, folder 1
1979
Contents
Newsletters, draft proposals, memos and correspondence. Topics include Senate Bill 91, contract development, Meet-and-confer
session with SFSU, layoff procedures, teaching quality legislation, collective bargaining petition drives at Cal Poly, Ponoma,
retroactive pay update, budget cut-backs proposed by Governor, and more.
box 9, folder 3
Proposition 9, Jarvis Tax Initiative (Campaign Against)
1980
box 9, folder 4
1980
Contents
Memos, newsletters and correspondence. Topics include legislative and political action, rules for contribution requests, procedure
for settlements of internal disputes, and more.
box 9, folder 5
Contract Development Survey
1980
box 9, folder 6
1981-1982
Contents
Newsletters and clippings.
box 9, folder 7
1983-1984
Contents
Proposals, reports, news release, memos and correspondence. Topics include state council meeting, cash flow, election procedures,
assets and liabilities, membership, faculty early retirement program, merit and faculty development, grievance and arbitration
procedures, and more.
box 9, folder 8
California Faculty Association and Other Rival Organizations
1984
box 9, folders 10-11
City and College: Their Culture
1966, undated
Series 4:
Newspaper Clippings
1968-1972
Scope and Contents
News clippings covering the 1968/1969 student and faculty strike at San Francisco State College.
Arrangement
The News clippings series is arranged chronologically.
