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

A protest of one: Stoneman Douglas High School senior Tyra Hemans stands on a hillside outside the school where 17 students and teachers were killed on Feb. 14, 2018, in the second-deadliest shooting at a U.S. public school. (Photo credit: Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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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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