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Aaron G. Fountain Jr.

Aaron G. Fountain Jr.

Aaron G. Fountain Jr. is a historian with a PhD in history from Indiana University. He is the author of High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America.

Stories from this author

Demonstrators at an anti-Vietnam War protest held at Bronx Science High School in New York in April 1968

Newly Declassified Records Suggest Parents Collaborated With the FBI to Spy on Their Rebellious Teens During the 1960s

As high school students across the U.S. embraced political activism, adults turned to the authorities to shield their sons and daughters from radical influences