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Northside Coalition of Jacksonville plans celebration for removal of Confederate monument
Read full article: Northside Coalition of Jacksonville plans celebration for removal of Confederate monumentJACKSONVILLE, Fla. The Northside Coalition of Jacksonville is planning an event to celebrate the removal of a Confederate statue in a downtown Jacksonville park. Community members are asked to arrive at Hemming Park at 7:30 a.m.City workers removed the monument in Hemming Park under the cover of darkness in the early hours or Tuesday morning. Activist and president of Northside Coalition of Jacksonville Ben Fraizer said all confederate monuments, street and school names in Jacksonville should be removed and renamed. Hemming Park was named for civil war veteran Charles Hemming in 1899, the year after he donated the monument. Its really about Confederate heritage and there is a definitive difference between the two.