A Dallas neighborhood is asking for the public’s help after thieves stole a 300-pound bronze statue honoring a significant piece of Black history near Dallas Love Field.
The 6-foot statue depicted a golfer and stood alongside a historical marker commemorating Hilliard Memorial Golf Course, the first municipal golf course built for African Americans in the southern United States in 1950.
The statue was installed last Juneteenth in the Elm Thicket/Northpark neighborhood, just east of the runways at Love Field. Now, all that remains is a concrete stump where the statue once stood…