youth movement

noun

: a political, religious, or social movement or agitation led by or consisting chiefly of youth or young people and usually aiming at reform or revolution

ready … to join the Nazi youth movements

—British Book News

the liberal section of younger Americans, the type out of whom youth movements are made

—Nation

basic to all youth movements are a deep dissatisfaction with the existing … order, a desire to change this order

—Hans Kohn

compare youth group

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