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TuxedoKat

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15. The Silent Generation

Sat Jun 20, 2020, 08:48 AM

Jun 2020

doesn't get enough credit. They were the early Civil Rights protesters. Martin Luther King, Jr., born 1929, was in the Silent Generation. The Greatest Generation gets credit for building the country up after WWII, but the Silents don't get enough credit for their part in it as they were coming of age then and working too. If Joe Biden gets elected he will be our first Silent Generation president.

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