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Opal Lee set to move into rebuilt Fort Worth home
FOX 4 News Dallas - Fort Worth· 1 day agoFORT WORTH, Texas - Fort Worth’s Grandmother of Juneteenth is set to move into ...
Opal Lee’s Walk for Freedom won’t be in Fort Worth this year, but its mission is unchanged
Fort Worth Star-Telegram McClatchy via AOL· 3 days agoThe walk is being held in Dallas to show the impact Juneteenth has in other cities around the...
Civil rights icon Opal Lee gets the keys to a home 85 years in the making in Fort Worth
NBC Dallas Fort Worth· 19 hours agoIn Fort Worth, a civil rights icon is finally coming home. Dr. Opal Lee, known as the Grandmother of...
Where to celebrate Juneteenth 2024 in Dallas-Fort Worth
Dallas Morning News· 2 days agoJuneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day that word of the Emancipation Proclamation finally...
85 years ago, a racist mob targeted Opal Lee’s home. Her new home is a symbol of community
Fort Worth Star-Telegram· 19 hours agoRioters ransacked the home of Opal Lee’s family 85 years ago and burned their belongings.
Where to celebrate Juneteenth in DFW
KDFW via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoOpal Lee Walk of Freedom When: 9. a.m. on June 19 Where: African American Museum of Dallas The Grandmother of Juneteenth< ...
Looking for ways to celebrate Juneteenth? Here are events happening around North Texas
CBS News· 2 days agoThe national holiday, observed on June 19, didn't become federally recognized until 2021, when...
Award-winning actor to serve as Grand Marshall at Fort Worth's Juneteenth rodeo event
WFAA Dallas-Fort Worth· 2 days ago"The idea that our story, our history is not only an American history but a worldwide participation...
What to know about Juneteenth
The Hill via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAmericans will soon celebrate Juneteenth to mark when enslaved people of African descent in Texas learned of their freedom after the Civil War, the last...
EXPLAINER: What is Juneteenth?
KNWA Fayetteville via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIn 2016, 89-year-old Lee began a 1,400-mile walk from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., symbolizing the two...
