Silent Generation
Silent Generation
The Silent Generation, also known as the Traditionalist Generation or Builders Generation, is a demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding the baby boomers. The generation is generally defined as people born from 1928 to 1945. By this definition and U.S. census data, there were 23 million people from the Silent Generation in the United States as of 2019.
"We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the periods official optimism, nor as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal."
Silent Generation
