Draws upon the memories of students and teachers as well as education journals, court cases, and news magazines. This book demonstrates that, although teenagers were indisputably influenced by the events reshaping the wider world, they were neither pawns nor mere mimics of their elders.

By the time activism waned in the mid-1970s, students had succeeded in making their high schools more open, more democratic, and more in tune with the times. Graham demonstrates that, although teenagers were indisputably influenced by the events reshaping the wider world, they were neither pawns nor mere mimics of their elders. Rather, they drew upon the rhetoric and strategies available to them in the 1960s to promote their own interests. Todd Gitlin offers a foreword that will rouse the reader's appetite for the stimulating account that follows. "Young Activists" will appeal to American historians and those who experienced the tumult of this unique era.