The recent protests peaked on June 6, when half a million people turned out in nearly 550 places across the U.S.

That was a single day in more than a month of protests that still continue. https://nyti.ms/2BXvL9D 

4 recent polls suggest that about 15 million to 26 million people in the U.S. have participated in demonstrations over the death of George Floyd and others.

The protests may be the largest in U.S. history, according to scholars and crowd-counting experts.

The first protests began in Minneapolis on May 26.

Turnout has ranged from dozens to tens of thousands in about 2,500 small towns and large cities. https://nyti.ms/2BXvL9D 

More than 40% of counties in the U.S. — at least 1,360 — have had a protest, and tallies by teams of crowd counters are revealing numbers of extraordinary scale. https://nyti.ms/2BXvL9D 

Unlike with past Black Lives Matter protests, nearly 95% of counties that had a protest recently are majority white, and nearly three-quarters of the counties are more than 75% white. https://nyti.ms/2BXvL9D 

“It looks, for all the world, like these protests are achieving what very few do: setting in motion a period of significant, sustained, and widespread social, political change,” said Douglas McAdam, a professor at Stanford University. https://nyti.ms/2BXvL9D