Generation X

(proper noun)

The group of people in the United States born after the post-World War II baby boom ended; while there is no universally agreed upon time frame, commentators usually use beginning birth dates ranging from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.

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Examples of Generation X in the following topics:

  • Demographic Shifts

    • Western world fashions reflected this by often turning highly individualistic and/or counter-cultural, which was influenced by Generation X and Generation Y/Millennials: tattoos and body piercing gained popularity, and "retro" styles inspired by fashions of the 1960s and 1970s were also prevalent.
    • "Generation X" is the name given to people born between the mid-1960s and early-1980s.
    • The term was penned by author Douglas Coupland in 1991 when he released his era-defining novel, Generation X.
    • By pointing out major social problems such as AIDS, depression, and sexuality, Coupland helped define an entire generation.
    • Douglas Coupland's novel exploring the generation born between 1965 and 1988 coined the term "Generation X."

  • Black Power

    • In the 1960s, its most famous member was Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little.
    • Stokely Carmichael later recalled that Malcolm X had provided an intellectual basis for Black Nationalism and given legitimacy to the use of violence in achieving the goals of Black Power.
    • This group followed the ideology of Malcolm X using a "by-any-means necessary" approach to stopping inequality.
    • The movement uplifted the black community as a whole by cultivating feelings of racial solidarity, often in opposition to the world of white Americans - a world that had oppressed Blacks for generations.
    • Malcolm X, a black power leader, asks a crowd a series of questions.

  • Marcus Garvey

    • Attorney General Harry M.
    • Martin Luther King, Jr., and Earl and Louise Little, the parents of black militant activist Malcolm X, who met each other at a UNIA convention in Montreal.

  • Legislative Achievements of the Second New Deal

    • Many accused the NLRB of a general pro-union and anti-employer bias, pointing to the board's controversial decisions in such areas as employer free speech and "mixed motive" cases, in which the NLRB held that an employer violated the act by firing an employee for anti-union reasons even if the employee had actually engaged in misconduct.
    • The act also gave money to states to provide assistance to aged individuals (Title I), unemployment insurance (Title III), Aid to Families with Dependent Children (Title IV), maternal and child welfare (Title V), public health services (Title VI), and the blind (Title X).

  • Legislative Change

    • Byrd, Sr. of Virginia along with his brother-in-law as the leader in the Virginia General Assembly, Democrat Delegate James M.
    • It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public (known as "public accommodations").
    • Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X at the United States Capitol on March 26, 1964.

  • The XYZ Affair

    • Since Adams omitted the names of these French agents in the dispatches, referring to them as "X, Y, and Z", this became known as the XYZ Affair.
    • "X" was Baron Jean-Conrad Hottinguer, "Y" was Pierre Bellamy, and "Z" was Lucien Hauteval, and the demand came during a meeting in Paris, France.
    • Several weeks prior to the meeting with X, Y, and Z, the dispatches detailed how the American commission had met with French foreign minister Talleyrand to discuss French retaliation against the Jay Treaty, which the French government perceived as evidence of an Anglo-American alliance.

  • The Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement

    • It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public (known as "public accommodations").
    • This group followed the ideology of Malcolm X, a former member of the Nation of Islam, using a "by-any-means necessary" approach to stopping inequality.

  • The Lost Generation

    • In a more general sense the term identified the generation that came of age during and shortly after World War I, leading to the name, "the World War I Generation."
    • The term "Lost Generation" first appeared in Hemingway’s novel, The Sun Also Rises, which centers on a group of expatriate Americans in Europe during the 1920s and epitomizes the lifestyle and mindset of the post-war expatriate generation.
    • You are a lost generation."
    • The “Lost Generation” was greatly influenced by the First World War.
    • Eliot was an important figure among the "Lost Generation" movement of writers.

  • The Beats

    • The term Beatnik was coined to represent the Beat Generation, and referred to the name of the recent Russian satellite, Sputnik, and the Beat Generation.
    • The Beat Generation phenomenon itself had a pervasive influence on Western culture.
    • In 1982, Ginsberg published a summary of the essential effects of the Beat Generation:
    • The Beat generation was characterized as beatnik in mainstream society.
    • This picture represents a beatnik; a caricature of someone in the Beat generation.

  • Indentured Servants

    • Indenture contract signed with an X by Henry Meyer in 1738