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Sonya Patrick, leader of the Wilmington arm of the Black Lives Matter movement, said her group had been advocating for those two changes in particular for years. The protests, she said, including the rallies held by BLM/ILM at the 1898 memorial on North Third Street, helped provide the momentum necessary for those changes to occur.
The history of Long Leaf Park it was formerly named after Hugh MacRae, one of the organizers of the Wilmington coup and massacre of 1898, in which dozens of Blacks were killed and others run out of town made many Black residents reluctant to go there. The Confederate monuments still presumably in storage somewhere in Wilmington, their fate as yet unknown are seen by many as an enduring endorsement of white supremacy.
Night at the ballpark turns into chaos after shooting at Long Leaf Park
Night at the ballpark turns into chaos after shooting at Long Leaf Park By Michael Praats | May 6, 2021 at 3:37 PM EDT - Updated May 10 at 10:31 AM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - It started off as a regular spring night at Long Leaf Park, formerly Hugh MacRae Park, with little league games taking place and people practicing their swings at the batting cages. But that calm evening soon turned into chaos and confusion after gun shots rang out from the basketball court, just yards away from the baseball fields.