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DALLAS – Community leaders in a historic Dallas neighborhood are calling for the public\u2019s help after a 300-pound bronze statue honoring a landmark moment in Black history was stolen near Dallas Love Field.<\/p>\n
Historic Black history monument stolen <\/p>\n
The six-foot sculpture depicted a golfer and stood in the 6700 block of Mabel Avenue, adjacent to a historical marker commemorating Hilliard Memorial Golf Course. Established in 1950, the site holds national significance as the first municipal golf course created for African Americans in the southern United States.<\/p>\n
Installed last Juneteenth just east of the Love Field runways in the Elm Thicket\/Northpark neighborhood, the statue had served as a source of local pride. Today, only an empty concrete pedestal marks the location.<\/p>\n
(Source: Jonathan Maples) <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
Dallas police received an official report regarding the theft on Sept. 30. A preliminary investigation determined that unknown suspects removed the statue overnight on Sept. 24.<\/p>\n
As of Sunday, the statue has not been located and no arrests have been made. Local organizers, including Jonathan Maples, president of the Elm Thicket\/Northpark Neighborhood Association, are working to raise awareness in hopes of recovering the stolen monument and preserving the neighborhood’s heritage.<\/p>\n
What you can do:<\/p>\n
Authorities are asking anyone with information regarding the ongoing investigation (Case No. 820294-2026) to contact Det. D. Cunningham at 214-329-8909 or dante.cunningham@dallaspolice.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this article is from the Dallas Police Department and Jonathan Maples, president of the Elm Thicket\/Northpark Neighborhood Association.<\/p>\n Love Field<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS – Community leaders in a historic Dallas neighborhood are calling for the public\u2019s help after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1046,102,581,104,103,15387,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-476908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-love-field","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}