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February 26th

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  1. 2012
    The Record

    Trayvon Martin killed in Sanford, Florida

    Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Benjamin Martin, walking home from a convenience store in Sanford, Florida, is shot and killed by neighborhood-watch volunteer George Zimmerman. Zimmerman is charged six weeks later after national protest and acquitted on July 13, 2013. Alicia Garza's Facebook post that night, ending with Black Lives Matter, names what becomes a movement.

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