Black Lives Matter didn't form from nothing after the fatal police shooting of Mike Brown on ??? ?? ??Aug. 9, 2014, but it was then that the movement began to build the longevity to survive and grow for the two years to come.
Since that shooting, protesters have demonstrated against police brutality on highways, outside airports and in front of police stations across the country. Activists have built various actionable frameworks to fight police violence, racism in the housing industry, racism embedded in the nation's criminal justice system and more.
SEE ALSO: Black Lives Matter reveals a six-point plan to combat systemic racismWe've outlined some of the major protests and developments in the movement since Brown died, below.
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Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Fatal shooting of Tamir Rice
Nov. 22, 2014
Tamir Rice was a 12-year-old black boy carrying a toy gun in Cleveland when police drove up to him and, less than a second after exiting the car, fatally shot him.
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Dec. 3, 2014
Protesters demonstrated across New York City after another grand jury chose not to indict a New York Police Department officer after he put Garner in a chokehold on Staten Island earlier in 2014 and refused to release Garner even as the man pleaded, "I can't breathe," over and over.
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March 2015
A sea of activists young and old descended on Selma, Alabama, in March 2015 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, during which activists marched in one of the most iconic and infamous days of the Civil Rights Movement. Activists advocating for equality for black Americans in 1965 were brutalized by police.
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April 4, 2015
On April 4, 2015, Walter Scott sprinted across an empty lot behind a pawn shop, away from North Charleston officer Michael Slager, who'd drawn his gun.
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April 2015
Days after Scott was shot down, officers in Baltimore threw 24-year-old Freddie Gray in the back of a police van unbuckled. By the end of the ride, his neck and spine were damaged beyond repair.
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June 17, 2015
Self-proclaimed white supremacist Dylann Roof sat in a late-night Bible study group with parishioners of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17. During the session, he stood, pulled out a gun, and killed nine people who were part of the fabric of the city's community.
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July 2015
Sandra Bland pulled over on a Texas road three days before her death and waited for the police officer to walk up to her driver-side door.
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August 2015
On Aug. 9, 2015, police in Ferguson shot a black teenager named Tyrone Harris after Harris allegedly pulled a gun and began shooting at officers.
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Aug. 21, 2015
In late August 2015, activists released a platform called Campaign Zero, which aims to reduce incidents of police violence.
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Protests across college campuses
November 2015
Student activists at the University of Missouri forced the university system president to resign after a series of protests during which they said he had not responded quickly to a series of racist occurrences on campus.
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November 2015
A Minneapolis officer fatally shot 24-year-old Jamar Clark on Nov. 15, 2015, just blocks from a police station after police were called to the home for a domestic disturbance. Clark died the following day.
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November 2015
Chicago officials released video of a police officer fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times more than a year after the incident took place.
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable The fatal shooting of Alton Sterling
July 5, 2016
Baton Rouge police officers pinned a black man named Alton Sterling to the ground before one of them pulled out a gun and fatally shot him.
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable The fatal shooting of Philando Castile
July 6, 2016
One day later, a police officer in Minnesota fatally shot Philando Castile at a traffic stop.
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July 7, 2016
Just a few days after that, during one of many protests against police brutality that took place across the country that week, a sniper fired on police in downtown Dallas, killing five officers.
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July 17, 2016
The fatal shooting of police officers in Dallas wasn't the final such incident that month. A former marine killed three officers in Baton Rouge as protests in the city were still ongoing.
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July 27, 2016
The day six officers were charged in connection to the death of Freddie Gray was seen as a potential watershed moment, though few black Baltimore residents were under the illusion that charges meant convictions.
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Activists across the U.S. release broad plan to fight many forms of racism in America
Aug. 1, 2016
The Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of groups associated with Black Lives Matter, released a broad, detailed list of demands earlier this month that they believe will help fight racism in housing, education, criminal justice, and many other aspects of American life.