Book Talks
Book Passage
Date: Sunday, January 11, 2026
Time: 2:00 p.m. PST
Location: Book Passage, San Francisco, CA (Ferry Building Store)
Join Aaron G. Fountain Jr. at Book Passage for a discussion of High School Students Unite!: Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America, exploring how teenage activists reshaped U.S. schools and helped spark major reforms.
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Charis Books & More
Date: Saturday, January 31, 2026
Time: 7:30–8:30 p.m. ET
Location: Charis Books & More, 184 S. Candler St., Decatur, GA 30030
Aaron G. Fountain Jr. visits Charis Books & More to talk about High School Students Unite! and the role of high school students in the civil rights, Black freedom, and antiwar movements, with special attention to education reform and surveillance.
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Policing Blackness, Resisting Repression: Police Violence and Surveillance
Date: Thursday, February 5
Time: 6:30–8:30 p.m. EST
Location: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL), New York, NY
As part of the Conversations in Black Freedom Studies series, this panel explores the intertwined histories of policing, Black freedom struggles, and state surveillance. Aaron G. Fountain Jr. joins fellow scholars to discuss how police violence and intelligence gathering targeted Black communities and youth movements, and how activists resisted repression.
Aaron G. Fountain, Jr., PhD 