Finding aid to the Daniel D. Feder Papers
Finding aid prepared by Luca Facchin
Special Collections and Archives, J. Paul Leonard Library
2023
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco, California 94132-1722
Title: Daniel Feder Papers
Date (inclusive): 1967-1973, undated
Date (bulk): 1968-1969
Source:
Whitson, Helene
Extent:
0.46 Cubic Feet
(1 manuscript box)
Collection number: uarch.1997.02
Accession number: 1997/02
Contributing Institution: Special Collections and Archives, J. Paul Leonard Library
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
San Francisco State University
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco, CA 94132-1722
(415) 338-1856
Abstract: This collection contains materials collected by Daniel D. Feder during the 1968-1969 San Francisco State College student strike
and the simultaneous and supportive faculty strike. The strike led to the creation of the San Francisco State University College
of Ethnic Studies. Contains correspondence, memos, minutes, position papers, printed and handwritten notes, newspaper articles,
public statements, and other materials related to the strike.
Physical Location: Collection is available on site.
Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English.
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the University Archives. All requests for permission to publish or quote from materials
must be submitted in writing to the University Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the University
Archives as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
The collection includes unpublished drafts of manuscripts and articles by third-party authors, including students and other
scholars. By accessing the collection, researchers agree to respect the intellectual rights of these individuals and to refrain
from citing or publishing from materials without the permission of the authors.
[Identification of item], Daniel Feder Papers, uarch. 1997.02, San Francisco State University, J. Paul Leonard Library, Special
Collections and Archives.
Related materials providing additional information on the 1968 strike at San Francisco State College may be found in the following
collections in this repository: Martinas (Sharon) Papers, Ecumenical House Papers, Hyink Family Papers, EOP Records, Dr. Richard
H. Fine Papers, Nacio Jan Brown Papers, John Levin Papers, and Harvey Yorke Records.
Related materials providing video documentation of news media coverage of the 1968 strike is available online as a part of
the J. Paul Leonard Library Bay Area Television Archive's San Francisco State Strike Collection.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Materials collected by Helene Whitson, accession number 1997.02
The collection is arranged alphabetically.
Daniel D. Feder was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attended the University of Denver from where he received his A.B.
in Psychology and Education and A.M. in Psychology in December 1931. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with
a dissertation titled "A Study of Individualized Instruction at the College Level."
He moved to San Francisco, California in 1961 to chair the Division of Psychology at San Francisco State University. In 1963,
he was named Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences for a year and Dean of Academic Planning for the next nine years.
He took the position of Dean of Faculty Affairs when it was created in the fall of 1973 and occupied that position until his
retirement in 1975. He died in May 1978.
This collection contains materials collected by Daniel D. Feder, pertaining to the time of the 1968-1969 San Francisco State
College student strike and the simultaneous and supportive faculty strike. The strike led to the creation of the San Francisco
State University College of Ethnic Studies. It consists of subject files containing correspondence, memos, minutes, position
papers, printed and handwriteen notes, newspaper articles, public statements, and other materials related to the strike.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
San Francisco State College -- Student strike, 1968-1969.
San Francisco State College -- Students
San Francisco State College -- Faculty -- Political activity.
San Francisco State University -- College of Ethnic Studies
Third World Liberation Front
Student movements -- United States
Whitson, Helene
box 1, folders 1-2
Correspondence 1968-1973 undated
Materials include correspondence by College Administrators, the Office of the Chancellor, faculty, the Governor, California
Legislature and other elected officials, the State Personnel Board, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the Office
of the General Counsel, and others. Topics include employees attendance, terminations, reinstatements, reappointments, grievances
and grievance procedures, appeals, sick leave and health benefits, personnel files, budget deficit, teaching loads, appointment
of graduate assistants, the establishment of a Black Studies Program, use of student body fees, dissent and demonstrations,
campus dispositions against students arrested at SFSC, public response to unrest, and others.
Also contains a numbered list describing each document compiled by librarian Helene Whitson.
box 1, folder 3
General 1968-1969 undated
Materials include drafts of position papers, printed and handwritten notes, lists of faculty members who refused to work,
lists of student demands, legislation, newspaper articles. Topics include protection of constitutional rights, funding for
faculty positions, rescission of disciplinary rules, grievance procedures, faculty witholding services during the strike,
legal, administrative and financial implications, and others.
box 1, folder 4
box 1, folder 5
Statements 1968-1969 undated
Materials include statements by President Smith, Acting President Hayakawa, the Chancellor Office, public officials and personalities
and others. Topics include developments in ethnic studies, special procedures for leave requests of separated and rehired
faculty members, support for Hayakawa, firing of George Murray, breakthroughs in the areas of Black and Ethnic studies programs,
the AFT strike, student classroom attendance, AFT strike sanction, emergency disciplinary procedures, damage in the administration
building, and others.
box 1, folder 6