Linn Park (Birmingham, Alabama)
Linn Park can mean: * Linn Park, Birmingham, Alabama, a seven-acre urban park in the centre of Birmingham, Alabama * Linn Park, Glasgow Linn Park is an park in Glasgow, Scotland, surrounded by the suburbs of Cathcart, Muirend, Simshill, and Castlemilk, also bordering Netherlee in East Renfrewshire. It is Glasgow's third largest park, after Pollok Country Park and Dams to Darnle ...

Linn Park, Birmingham, Alabama
Linn Park is a urban park in the centre of Birmingham, Alabama. It is overlooked by Birmingham City Hall. Formerly known as Capitol Park, Woodrow Wilson Park, and Central Park, the park was renamed after Confederate naval officer and businessman Charles Linn in the 1980s. Confederate monuments From 1905 until 2020, the park was home to the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument, a -high obelisk erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy, even though the city itself did not exist until after the Civil War. Following protests in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd, during which protestors damaged and tried to remove the monument, the mayor removed the obelisk, leaving only the plinth. A statue of Charles Linn was installed in 2013 and toppled on May 31, 2020, during the George Floyd protests The George Floyd protests were a series of protests and civil unrest against police brutality and racism that began in Minneapolis on May 26, 2020, and largely took place d ...
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