Pew Research, June 2020: protest participation survey

The fetched primary behind the essay’s 2020 paragraph. Pew’s 6% of US adults, against the roughly 258 million US adults of 2020, is the arithmetic floor of the widely cited fifteen to twenty-six million participation range.

Scope of this record, stated plainly. The full 15–26 million range and the “largest movement in US history” framing come from the New York Times analysis of July 3, 2020 (Buchanan, Bui, and Patel), which aggregated this Pew survey with Civis Analytics and Kaiser polling; the Harvard Crowd Counting Consortium’s public materials carry the same characterization. The essay therefore phrases the figure exactly as what it is: an estimate of what people said they did in surveys, not a crowd count, with the superlative qualified. The NYT primary was not directly fetchable at verification time and is cited here through its confirmed metadata; this record’s tier-A standing rests on the Pew document this url names.