Three black women founded Black Lives Matter after Trayvon Martin’s murder.
Evidence
Three black women, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, coined Black Lives Matter, “as a call to action for black people after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was posthumously placed on trial for his own murder and the killer, George Zimmerman, was not held accountable for the crime he committed.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 424
Categorization
- XREF: Origin story of BLM — supplies the movement context that this chapter says it will intersect with Islamophobia; relevant to the reader’s dialectic focus.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 424