I want to second Marty Jezer's comments and add to them: I am working on a
study of the Movement in Philadelphia and have found that there were a
number of inbetween generational folks--between the Depression generation
and the baby-boomers--who played significant roles, but not in a singular
way. Several--Marty Oppenheimer and Leo Kormis, both born in the
1930s--came out of Old Left struggles, were Schactmanites, YSPLs, but were
able to see something new--they were learners, especially re the civil
rights movement--and helped baby-boom new leftists to keep their eyes on
the prize of democracy. Others were more apolitical during the 1950s,
getting their degrees, having families, but were politicized by civil
rights and the war, often taking leadership roles in organizations like
SANE, Clergy and Layman, campus faculty groups, etc. There's a book to be
written about these folks who don't fit the conceit of a baby-boom 60s
generation, both the war-babies noted in some commentary and what I'll call
the 1948 generation(Wallace and then downhill). Paul Lyons
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