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Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a decentralized social political movement advocating for non-violent civil disobedience against unjust incidents of police brutality as well as other racially motivated violence against the African American communities in the United States. In 2020, the movement arose to the public domain and gained nationwide and international attention, starting with the public’s rage regarding George Floyd’s death. An estimated 15 million to 26 million people, though not all are active members of the original organization, participated in the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in the United States, making Black Lives Matter one of the significant movements in United States history. The movement advocates to defund the police and fund African American communities along with alternative emergency response models directly.

Black Lives Matter in 2020 may be the largest movement in US history. The George Floyd protests were a series of police brutality protests that began in Minneapolis in the United States on May 26, 2020. Civil unrest and protests began as part of international responses to the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man who was killed during an arrest after Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis Police Department officer, knelt on Floyd's neck for nearly eight minutes as three other officers looked on and prevented passers-by from intervening.Chauvin and the other three officers involved were later arrested. Local protests began in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area of Minnesota before quickly spreading nationwide and to over 2,000 cities and towns in over 60 countries in support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Polls in summer 2020 estimated that between 15 million and 26 million people had participated at some point in the demonstrations in the United States, making the protests the largest in U.S. history. Protests continued until early November. (Wikipedia)

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Protest history of U.S.A

1960-2020

1963

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was to protest the systemic disenfranchisement of black Americans.

1969

Between 500,000 and 600,000 people demonstrated against the Vietnam War, which had led to thousands of deaths by 1969. Coalitions started organizing smaller rallies in 1967, eventually leading up to the large anti-Vietnam march two years later.

1981

The Solidarity Day march was a rally of about 260,000 people in DC in 1981. It was sparked by President Ronald Reagan's decision to fire 12,000 air traffic controllers who went on strike and demanded wage increases and safer working conditions.

1982

In 1982, around a million protesters filled Central Park to protest nuclear weapons during Ronald Reagan's presidency. A New York Times article from 1982 said, "The vast parade and rally, organized by a coalition of peace groups, brought together pacifists and anarchists, children and Buddhist monks, Roman Catholic bishops and Communist Party leaders, university students and union members."

1995

In 1995, Washington, DC's Million Man March took place with a stated aim to unite the black community. Estimates for the number of attendees vary from 400,000 to 1.1 million people.Notable speakers at the march included Jesse Jackson, Rosa Parks, Cornel West, and Maya Angelou.

1993

Between 800,000 and a million people marched on the National Mall in 1993 for LGBTQ rights. The organizers' primary demands were civil rights bills against discrimination, an increase in AIDS research funding, and reproductive rights.

1997

In 1997, two years after the Million Man March, anywhere from 500,000 to 2 million people convened for the Million Woman March. The event, which was held on a rainy Saturday in 1997, included prayer, musical performances, and speeches by local organizers and civil rights activists.

2003

As a protest to George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq, between 10 to 15 million people marched in 600 cities across the world in 2003. At least 500,000 people protested in American cities, including New York City, Los Angeles, and Seattle.It's known as the biggest protest in world history.

2004

In 2004, the March for Women's Lives was one of the largest protests in American history, with between 500,000 and 1.1 million attendees.

2014

The People's Climate March attracted between 311,000 and 400,000 participants. It is regarded as the biggest call-to-action on climate change.Though the largest demonstration was in New York City, there were nearly 2,700 climate-related demonstrations in more than 150 countries.

2017

The March for Science was held on Earth Day and attracted more than a million protesters around the world. Participants advocated for a global focus on the International Panel on Climate Change's report on the catastrophic effects of a 1.5 degree Celsius increase in global temperature. Many also protested the Trump administration's budget cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency.

2017-2018

The 2017 Women's March is considered the largest single-day protest in US history, attracting anywhere from 3,267,134 and 5,246,670 people, according to data compiled by The Washington Post. The 2018 Women's March attracted between 1.6 million and 2.5 million.

2018

TThe protest attracted between 1.2 and 2 million people. It occured a month after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, which many referred to as a turning point for gun control legislation.The March for Our Lives mission is "to harness the power of young people across the country to fight for sensible gun violence prevention policies that save lives."

2020

Tens of thousands of people have protested against police brutality and the systemic racism that contributed to the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and many others.

"Explore the history"

A dataset of protest activities in the United States from earlier 2017 to mid 2020, provides a broader perspective about the protests. People protested for different reasons, while, during some specific periods, certain topics were more popular. This radar chart is presenting a contrast of the popularity of each category with particular events, according to the amount of attendees in the selected year, or month.

In addition to the contrast between the purposes of protests, which creates a basic impression about those which have more people engaged in, this chart also served as a tool to contrast the records between different points of time. (e.g. compare the area map of 2018 to the area map of 2020, and to dig in depth, compare the aera map of June 2018 to the area map of July 2020). Moreover, the radar chart itself served as a filter, each selection interacts with a matrix histogram for the year and a waffle diagram for the month, which are particularly displaying the related media press (number of articles), and illustrating the portion of each category of event. The information this provides is also showing the impact to the public as well as the consequence of certain protest activities.

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"Explore the history"

George Floyd’s protests brought public attention to police brutality. The story of protest starts from the data of police shootings in the United States in the last 50 years. A matrix chart is constructed by a list of circles in the sequence of timeline. Each circle represents an instance of a life taken by the force of execution.

The color of the circle indicates the classification according to race's skin color, which aims to stress the issue that not only about police shootings but about the ethnic prejudice that exists deep down in the American society.

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Protests history of United States

"Protests in the world..."

As a symbol of modern civilization, protest has been prevailing globally through contemporary history. Dated back to 1950, a dataset traced activities in different countries, marked down the methods participants engaged in their protests, as well as the timespan. In this section, 12 selected countries listed below, are displaying the radio of protests under different methods, sorted according to the sum of days lasted during the activities and displayed in gradient colors.

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"Social injustice by race"

The Census Bureau report on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in 2019 reveals impressive growth in median household income relative to 2018 across all racial and ethnic groups, but income gaps persist.(Valerie Wilson)

The 2019 poverty rates also reflect the strong income growth between 2018 and 2019, though the Census also cautions that the poverty estimates may be understated due to a decline in response rates. As seen in the figure below, poverty rates for all groups were down, but remained highest among African Americans (18.7%, down 2.0 percentage points), followed by Hispanics (15.7%, down 1.9 percentage points), Asians (7.3%, down 2.8 percentage points), and whites (7.3%, down 0.8 percentage points). African American and Hispanic children continued to face the highest poverty rates—more than one-quarter (25.6%) of African Americans and more than one-fifth (20.9%) of Hispanics under age 18 lived below the poverty level in 2019. African American children were more than three times as likely to be in poverty as white children (8.3%).