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.