FORT WORTH, Texas — A bronze statue of a young Black man, his hand extending to the sky with a basketball, now prominently stands on the campus of Texas Christian University, immortalizing a Fort Worth native who’s a trailblazer on and off the basketball court.
The statue of James Cash was unveiled Friday in front of Schollmaier Arena as part of TCU’s Race & Reconciliation Initiative. Cash was TCU’s first Black student-athlete, the first Black basketball player in the Southwest Conference and the first Black tenured professor at Harvard Business School.
The ceremony included former TCU basketball players, Fort Worth and Tarrant County leaders, Cash’s family, current TCU players and representatives of I.M. Terrell Academy.
