South Florida baby boomers have varied backgrounds -- and, of course, places of origin -- but share some common hopes and worries.
March 28, 2010
ANA VECIANA-SUAREZ, aveciana@MiamiHerald.com
Growing up in Coconut Grove and Coral Gables, Sandra Schultz hid under her school desk during nuclear-attack drills and watched protesters march against the Vietnam War. She didn't have a single black classmate until she attended the University of Miami.
Jorge Maldonado, who grew up in Peru during a military regime, recalls vague news reports about Vietnam and the Cold War, but when he arrived in Miami in 1982, ''I had not been exposed to the civil rights movement and I had no idea there had been segregation.''
Serge Fleurimond was devastated when he learned about Martin Luther King's assassination as a teenager in Haiti, where people sympathized with the American civil rights movement. But he wasn't familiar with the counterculture revolution and the women's movement that roiled American society.
Schultz, Maldonado and Fleurimond all belong to the baby boom generation, a demographic age wave -- 78 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 -- that has influenced everything from politics to music to religion. As their backgrounds suggest, it's a generation, though seminal, that's quite diverse -- especially in a place like Miami-Dade County, where nearly half the population is foreign-born.
Posted By: Ayanna Spikes
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