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Callie Avondet on Aaron Fountain Jr.’s *High School Students Unite: Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America*
While the 1960s and 1970s are often remembered for activism, high school students’ unique efforts have often been overlooked. Aaron Fountain Jr.’s High School Students Unite documents “how high school students in the 1960s and 1970s spearheaded their own social movement which deserves recognition alongside other grassroots developments of the era.”[1] High school student activists across the United States formed networks that allowed them to fight for, and win, students’ rights. Motivated by the beliefs that high school students were oppressed and that changing high school was key to broader American reform, these young activists secured many wins at both Read more


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