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Student Protest

Concord 1967

I was teaching photography and art at the secondary school level during the early Haight-Ashbury period. Down the hall from my classroom at Concord High School, some angry student blew-up the toilet. I have always viewed toilet destruction as the "original" student protest. After seeing this photograph, the great Minor White wrote to me saying he wished he had made the photograph himself.