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Crowd Counting Consortium (Harvard Ash Center)

Crowd Counting Consortium, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School. Program page: CCC data underlie the New York Times analysis finding the 2020 George Floyd protests constituted the largest and broadest mobilization in U.S. history to that time, and that the mobilization was overwhelmingly peaceful.

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web
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A
Status
published

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Backs the essay’s qualified 2020 superlative. The 15-26 million range itself is carried by the Pew record (pew-2020-protest-participation) and phrased in the essay as poll-derived self-report, never a crowd count.

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Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School
Accessed
2026-08-06

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