Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History (The New York Times, July 3, 2020)

The analysis behind the essay’s 2020 range. Verbatim: “Four recent polls … suggest that about 15 million to 26 million people in the United States have participated in demonstrations over the death of George Floyd and others in recent weeks,” and “These figures would make the recent protests the largest movement in the country’s history, according to interviews with scholars and crowd-counting experts.” Its table gives four polls: Kaiser 10% (26 million), Civis 9% (23 million), NORC 7% (18 million), Pew 6% (15 million). nytimes.com refuses automated fetches; read through the Internet Archive capture of July 5, 2020.