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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.
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It's called "Opal Lee and What It Means To Be Free"
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Opal Lee’s dream of seeing Juneteenth become a federal holiday was finally realized over the summer, but the energetic Fort Worth woman who spent years rallying people to join her push for the day commemorating the end of slavery is hardly letting up on a lifetime of work teaching and helping others.
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KERA's Galilee Abdullah spoke to Opal Lee, known as "The Grandmother of Juneteenth", who shared her experience watching the new federal holiday get signed into law. Lee says there's more work to be done.
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The United States is commemorating the end of slavery with a new federal holiday.