The student activism which would result in violence protest during the coming decades got its start in the late 1950s. Students, angered over segregation and political issues such as loyalty oaths, began to grumble starting in 1958. Colleges arid universities which were seeking to produce a better "product" (that is, a better-trained adult population) also brought students a more-enlightened product. Students were finding their voices in a world where their sheer number was increasing. The "silent and apathetic" college atmosphere of the early 1950s evolved into the breeding ground for the student radicals of the 1960s and 1970s.