Silent Generation

The Silent Generation is the demographic cohort following the G.I. Generation. There are no precise dates for when this generation starts or ends; demographers and researchers typically use starting dates ranging from the mid-to-late 1920s and ending dates ranging from the early-to-mid-1940s.

While there were many civil rights leaders, the "Silents" are called that because many focused on their careers rather than on activism, and people in it were largely encouraged to conform with social norms.Time magazine coined the term "Silent Generation" in a November 5, 1951 article entitled "The Younger Generation," and the term has remained ever since. The name was originally applied to people in the United States and Canada but has been applied as well to those in Western Europe, Australia and South America. It includes most of those who fought during the Korean War. In the United States, the generation was comparatively small because the financial insecurity of the 1930s and the war in the early 1940s caused people to have fewer children.

They have also been named the "Lucky Few" in the 2008 book The Lucky Few: Between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boom, by Elwood D. Carlson PhD, the Charles B. Nam Professor in Sociology of Population at Florida State University.

Neil Howe writing for Forbes describes the Silent Generation as those born 1925–1942.Pew Research Center defines the generation as being born from 1928 to 1945.

The generation includes many political and civil rights leaders such as Elizabeth II, Martin Luther King, Jr., Pope Francis, Pope Benedict XVI, Malcolm X, Michael Dukakis, John McCain, Walter Mondale, Dick Cheney, Bernie Sanders, Robert F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Jim Bolger, Jacques Chirac, Jean Chretien, F.W. de Klerk, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Malcolm Fraser, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bob Hawke, John Howard, Saddam Hussein, Helmut Kohl, Paul Martin, Brian Mulroney, Ron Paul, Bill Rowling, Gloria Steinem, Margaret Thatcher, Boris Yeltsin, Yasser Arafat, Colin Powell, Simeon Sakskoburggotski, Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma, Slobodan Miloshevich, Madeleine Albright, Warren Christopher, Roman Herzog, Zhelyu Zhelev, Petar Mladenov, Ariel Sharon, Václav Havel.

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