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Opal Lee, known to many as "The Grandmother of Juneteenth," will not participate in this year’s Walk for Freedom march due to a recent hospitalization.
Opal Lee, left, applauds during a ceremony before aising the first wall to her new home on her family’s former lot in Fort Worth, Texas on Thursday, March 21, 2024.
Opal Lee sits in a rocking chair while waiting to give interviews on the porch of her new home in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, June 14, 2024. Habitat for Humanity built Lee the home on the same lot ...
Before Juneteenth became an official federal holiday, 94-year-old Opal Lee was on a mission. “I’m not just going to sit and rock, you know?” the determined “Grandmother of Juneteenth ...
A racist mob burned down Opal Lee's family home in 1939; recently, Habitat for Humanity helped build the activist a new home on the same site Dia Dipasupil/Getty This year, Juneteenth is even more ...
Opal Lee speaks with President Joe Biden after he signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law at the White House on June 17, 2021. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) ...
Ninety-seven-year-old Opal Lee, the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” received the keys to her new Fort Worth, Texas, home on June 14.
Opal Lee, the 97-year-old “grandmother of Juneteenth,” is getting a new home on the exact spot where a racist white mob trashed her family’s house more than 80 years ago. On Thursday morning ...
Opal Lee, the 97-year-old Grandmother of Juneteenth who pushed to make it a national holiday, moved into a new house on the site of her burned childhood home in Fort Worth, Texas.
Dunbar Elementary teacher Opal Roland, center, later Opal Lee, was a speaker June 8, 1969, at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Living Textbook Conference at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Opal Lee, a 97-year-old activist who was forced out of her Fort Worth, Texas, home by a racist mob when she was 12 years old, is preparing to move into her brand new home on the same property.