Walkout Highlights, Coast to Coast: Recapping the Student Protests and the Sights and Sounds That Helped #Enough Trend on Social Media

By Mitchell Trinka and Laura Fay

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Exactly one month after 17 people were killed in a school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students across America walked out of their schools to honor those killed and to protest gun violence. National School Walkout day, which encompassed more than 2,800 protests organized in part by Women’s March, included students, faculty, and supporters walking out for at least 17 minutes at 10 a.m. in each time zone. Most online discussion of the day’s events used the Twitter hashtag #Enough. We’ve highlighted the most notable updates below:

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