“spiritual” leaders of the “youth movement”:
Madalyn Murray O’Hair, born April 13, 1919
Timothy Leary, born October 22, 1920
Allen Ginsberg, born June 3, 1926
Paul Krassner, born April 9, 1932
Gloria Steinem, born March 25, 1934
Abbie Hoffman, born November 30, 1936
Jane Fonda, born December 21, 1937
Jerry Rubin, born July 14, 1938
John Lennon, born 9 October 1940
Huey P. Newton, born February 17, 1942
The closest you get is Bill Ayers, born December 26, 1944.
Exactly. Thank you.
I think there’s probably an intervening generation that nobody has ever identified.
A generation is normally considered to be 15 years. This means that there was another generation born about 15 yrs before the first Boomers (post WWII “baby boom” - 1946) that was the major influence, which would mean roughly starting in 1929.
We Boomers were teenagers - and young ones, at that - when the sex and drugs and rock and roll (and the US is always wrong) message started going out.
Also, I don’t know if you’re a Catholic or not, but Vatican II was also the product of an earlier generation, in fact, much earlier, since many of the evil council fathers who promoted the bad aspects of it, blindsiding the decent fathers who simply thought they’d come for a procedural nip and tuck, were actually from the “Greatest Generation” or before. IMHO, Vatican II destroyed the Church and its possible influence in stopping the chaos of the 1960s-70s, and was one of the things that left the Boomers (us) adrift.