This is Civics 101. I'm Hannah McCarthy.

So about a week ago, I'm doing my thing, my thing being scouring the Internet for truths about the United States because there is always,

always something I may have missed, something that has just happened, something that has just

come to light. And I found this article by an historian named Dr. Aaron Fountain, Jr.

Oh, so my name is Aaron Fountain, and I am a historian of 20th century American

history and recently published a book on high school student activism in the 1960s and 70s.

Aaron's book is called High School Students Unite, Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Sur FBI surveillance in post-war America.

And that article of his?

It was titled, Newly Declassified Records,

suggests parents collaborated with the FBI to spy on their rebellious teens during the 1960s.

So yeah, I had to talk to Aaron.

So Aaron found in fact. So Aaron Fountain discovered that the FBI was surveilling high school students in the 1960s,

and that parents would sometimes be the ones tipping the FBI off.

And this was something that not many people knew, including some of the very students who were being surveilled.

So first, I wanted to know why Aaron was focusing on high school students and their activism in the 1960s to begin with.

Oh, let me just say I was not an activist in high school because I attended eight

different schools in three states, so not really possible. However, it really started by accident.

I came across a book by political scientists Richard Ellis called To the Pledge. And in several

pages in one chapter, he talks about junior high in high school students who sat during a pledge of allegiance as a form of political protest in the 1960s and 70s.

And it made me just wonder, well, what were the stories behind those court cases?

So during that process, I saw so many passing references to high school students involved in civil rights and anti-Vietnam

war activism. So it may be asked, well, how did the Vietnam war affect students, teachers,

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