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Opal Lee, known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” was hospitalized last month while visiting Ohio to mark the 30th ...
There is great news for the Fort Worth grandmother who became the voice for a federal Juneteenth holiday. Opal Lee is out of ...
Opal Lee, a longtime Fort Worth civil rights leader known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” was hospitalized late last ...
Opal Lee, known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” is currently in the hospital but is reportedly doing well and in good ...
Opal Lee is known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth” for her decades-long campaign to make the day a federal holiday ...
FORT WORTH, Texas — Opal Lee, considered the "Grandmother of Juneteenth," was recently hospitalized, but her family says she ...
Opal Lee walked from Texas to D.C. to bring attention to Juneteenth. When President Joe Biden signed a bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United ...
This is where Opal Lee’s childhood home once burned. Her parents had worked hard to purchase the land and the house upon it. They had moved here from Marshall, in East Texas, her father hoping ...
CINCINNATI, Ohio -- Dr. Opal Lee, also known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” is being treated at an Ohio hospital. The 98 ...
The civil rights activist known as the grandmother of Juneteenth is expected to return home soon after a hospital visit in Ohio. FOX 4's Tisia Muzinga is in Fort Worth with details on her recovery.
The home was given to Opal Lee just days before Juneteenth which she pushed to have recognized as a national holiday. Ninety-seven-year-old Opal Lee, the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” received ...
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Opal Lee, the 97-year-old Texan known for her push to make Juneteenth a national holiday, was given the keys Friday to her new home, which was built on the same tree ...