Students around the country walked out of class on Friday to bring attention to gun violence in the U.S. The walkout also marked the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting in Littleton, Colorado.
Photos from around the country show students protesting peacefully and making their voices heard, as well as protesting silently outside the White House.
See the latest images from the second round of school walkouts below.
New York City
Students from Fiorello H. Laguardia High School walk out of their school.
Students from the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens.
Students from Fiorello H. Laguardia High School march out of their school.
Washington, D.C.
A student attends a rally outside the White House.
Students attend a rally at Lafayette Park.
Students march to the U.S. Capitol.
Emma Corcoran joins students observing 19 minutes of silence outside the White House.
Students from Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia, join the walkout.
A sign that reads 'Mr. President How Many More People Have To Die For You To Care?! ' lays on the ground.
Students march to the U.S. Capitol.
Parkland, Florida
Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 people were killed during a mass shooting earlier this year, leave school together for the National School Walkout.
Delany Tarr, a senior, signs a poster as she gathers with some of her classmates from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Chicago
A student holds up her hands while taking part in National School Walkout Day to protest school violence on April 20, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Washington, D.C.
Daisy Hernandez, 22, joins students and gun control advocates for the March For Our Lives event.
Students react during a speech at the rally.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma Gonzalez stayed silent for 6 minutes and 20 seconds in her speech.
The crowd listens as Emma Gonzalez speaks at the rally.
Gonzalez included six minutes and twenty seconds of silence in her speech, the time it took a shooter to kill 17 students and faculty at Stoneman Douglas High School.
Los Angeles student Edna Chavez cries as she speaks about the shooting death of her 14-year-old brother as she addresses students and gun control advocates during the "March for Our Lives".
21-year-old Alexander Voneiff of Alexandria, Virginia, cries as he shows marchers his "Enough" shirt.
Young girls wave down at marchers from the balcony of the Newseum.
A boy displays his hand-made sign as he poses for a photograph.
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Singer Lin-Manuel Miranda (L) and Singer Ben Platt perform.
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