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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.
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The "Grandmother of Juneteenth" was gifted the home built on the same site where her family home once stood.
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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.
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Opal Lee spent years fighting for the recognition of June 19 as a national holiday.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The artist, Fort Worth's Sedrick Huckaby will also give a talk with Lee Sunday at the Amon Carter Museum.
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A list of Juneteenth events in North Texas
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Opal Lee, known as the "Grandmother of Juneteenth" for her efforts to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, will speak at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum’s Funk Family Upstander Speaker Series on Tuesday, Feb. 7.
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Congressional leaders nominated a number of Texans for the annual award aimed at recognizing individuals for their outstanding contributions toward peace.