Silent Generation

English Etymology Popularized in a Time article in 1951.http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,856950,00.html The Younger Generation November 5, 1951 By comparison with the Flaming Youth of their fathers & mothers, today's younger generation is a still, small flame. It does not issue manifestoes, make speeches or carry posters. It has been called the "Silent Generation." https://web.archive.org/web/20260701015558/https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,856950,00.html 1 July 2026 1en Bob Henger The Silent Generation: 1925–1945 2012 Author House https://books.google.com/books?id=AYoDXZ5k5i4C&pg=PA1&dq=%22Silent+Generation%22&hl=en&cd=2&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Silent%20Generation%22&f=false 978-1-4772-0472-6 Jan Henger So called because they were not often politically strident. Proper noun Silent Generation 1 The generation of people born from the late 1920s to the early 1940s. en The Silent Generation produced such counterculture leaders as John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Huey P. Newton Huey Newton and Abbie Hoffman. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/09/fake-town-squares-are-coming-to-the-suburbs/570574/ Fake Public Squares Are Coming to the Suburbs 2018-09-18 Amanda Kolson Hurley Reminiscence therapy targets this age range, and for those Silent Generation members now in their 70s and 80s, that means the 1950s. https://web.archive.org/web/20251119170310/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/09/fake-town-squares-are-coming-to-the-suburbs/570574/ 19 November 2025 https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/03/reality-bites-captured-gen-x-25-years-later-helen-childress/583870/ Reality Bites Captured Gen X With Perfect Irony 2019-03-06 Soraya Roberts Like his character, Stiller was Gen X, but he didn’t have Boomer parents; his mother and father were part of the Silent Generation, and more important, they were in showbiz. https://web.archive.org/web/20260520014557/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/03/reality-bites-captured-gen-x-25-years-later-helen-childress/583870/ 20 May 2026 Translations generation of people born from the late 1920s to the early 1940s Azerbaijani: az sakit nəsil Māori: mi reanga ngū Polish: pl ciche pokolenie n See also en baby boom Generation Jones greatest generation silent References Further reading en Age Collectives Generations Sociology