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Bred in Modest Comfort
1960–1962
About 76 million Americans were born between 1946 and 1964. By 1970, more than twice as many Americans were in college as in 1959.
They learned protest from Black college students, who sat in at lunch counters across the South in 1960.
Not all of them turned left. In 1960, about ninety young conservatives founded Young Americans for Freedom.
In June 1962, fifty-nine members of Students for a Democratic Society met at a union camp near Port Huron, Michigan.
The Port Huron Statement We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.
Two things made them uncomfortable: racism, and the Bomb.
They called their answer participatory democracy. And they aimed it at the liberals in charge.