Opal Lee

The National Juneteenth Museum gave Opal Lee an early birthday gift — new renderings for the museum that she has long championed.

Fort Worth resident Candice Puente sees the transformation of a former Ku Klux Klan auditorium as a cultural bridge for her city and community.

The city recognized the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” who passed through Balch Springs during her historic walk in 2016 to make Juneteenth a national holiday.

On Monday night, CEO Jarred Howard told Historic Southside residents that, if he had their blessing, the very site in which they were meeting — the Southside Community Center — could soon host the proposed 50,000-square-foot museum development.

Forth Worth activist and grandmother of Juneteenth Opal Lee led North Texans in a 2.5-mile walk to commemorate the end of slavery in Texas after the Civil War.

The "Grandmother of Juneteenth" was gifted the home built on the same site where her family home once stood.

Pastor Charlie E. Nickerson remembers being a young man running a grocery store on the southside of Fort Worth while watching Opal Lee strive to make Juneteenth a national holiday.

Opal Lee spent years fighting for the recognition of June 19 as a national holiday.

The grandmother of Juneteenth raised the first wall of her new home on the site where a racist mob burned down her family’s house in 1939.

Opal Lee, “the grandmother of Juneteenth,” was excited that she was being honored Saturday in the nation’s capital, where she was to speak about her portrait on display at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.

A soaring golden roof, star-shaped courtyard and an amphitheater are just a portion of the National Juneteenth Museum’s plans for Fort Worth’s Historic Southside neighborhood.

The artist, Fort Worth's Sedrick Huckaby will also give a talk with Lee Sunday at the Amon Carter Museum.