What is the Silent Generation?
The Silent Generation is a generation of people born in the United States between roughly 1923 and the early 1940s. Members of this generation experienced vast cultural shifts in the United States, and many of them struggled with conflicted morals, ideas, and desires. Some members of the Silent Generation claim that they are one of the least understood generations from the 20th century, perhaps because of the relatively small size of this generation. Describing this generation as the “Silent Generation” is a bit of a misnomer. In fact, many revolutionary leaders in the civil rights movement came from the Silent Generation, along with a wide assortment of artists and writers who fundamentally changed the arts in America. The Beat Poets, for example, were members of the Silent Generation, as were Martin Luther King, Gloria Steinem, and many other notable agitators for change in the 20th century. This generation is comparatively small when compared to the surrounding generations because p
