Abbey Hoffman was pretty close to 40, so were many of the others of that group. Some were/are WAR BABIES, but the vast majority of that ilk were RED DIAPER BABIES.
The SDSers were mostly BOOMERS!
“The SDSers were mostly BOOMERS!”
Are you sure? Tom Hayden was involved in founding SDS and drafting their Port Huron manifesto and he was born in 1939.
Of course SDS lasted all through the 1960s so it would have picked up a load of ‘Boomers who weren’t happy about the prospect of being drafted. Funny how student radicalism ended at the same time that the draft did.