USA TODAY Network reporters, York Daily Record
Published
9:12 am UTC May. 24, 2021
No one woke up Memorial Day morning 2020 thinking their world was going to change.
No one imagined that one of the most momentous periods in the long quest for racial justice in America was about to begin.
And certainly numerous teenagers and young adults across the United States couldn t know that events were about to thrust them into positions of leadership in their town or city.
Looking back a full year, to the thunderous reaction to the killing of George Floyd while he was restrained by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020, is to gaze at the making of history, in real time, by hundreds of thousands of people of all backgrounds as they took to the streets and to Instagram to demand justice.
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