The recent BLM movement that has created a national uproar on June 6th, when half a million people turned out in about 550 places across America. This was only one day in a one month of protests that are still ongoing.

Polls, including one released this week by Civis Analytics, inform us that about 15 to 26 million people in the United States have participated in protests over the death of George Floyd and many others recently.

Number of people in U.S. who said they protested, according to polls

POLL	PCT. WHO PROTESTED	IMPLIED POPULATION	POLLING PERIOD
Kaiser Family Foundation (n = 1296)	10%	26 million	June 8-14
Civis Analytics (4446)	9%	23 million	June 12-22
N.O.R.C. (1310)	7%	18 million	June 11-15
Pew (9654)	6%	15 million	June 4-10

Precise turnout counts are very hard to do at large protests. But, tallies by crowd counters revealed huge numbers . On June 6, for example, at least 50,000 people turned out in Philadelphia, 20,000 in Chicago’s Union Park and up to 10,000 on the Golden Gate Bridge, according to estimates. 

Protests against racism and police violence per day

The Black Lives Matter movement has been around since 2013, but recently there has been a big shift in public opinion and heavier support for recent protests. 

by Serena Lathi