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 ...

A racist mob burned down Opal Lee's family home in 1939; recently, Habitat for Humanity helped build the activist a new home on the same site Dia Dipasupil/Getty This year, Juneteenth is even more ...

Ninety-seven-year-old Opal Lee, the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” received the keys to her new Fort Worth, Texas, home on June 14.

New house is on same Texas lot where family home was burned by white rioters. It was June 19, 1939, when Opal Lee remembers her parents sending her to a friend’s house several blocks away when ...

Eighty-five years later, Lee, now 97, got the keys to a new home - at ... and ‘grandmother of Juneteenth’ Opal Lee moves into her new home in Texas on the same lot where a racist mob burned ...

The Texas 97-year-old known as the “grandmother” of Juneteenth was presented with the keys to her new home, built on the same lot that her parents bought 85 years ago, only to be driven out of ...

The Texas 97-year-old known as the “grandmother” of Juneteenth was presented with the keys to her new home, built on the same lot that her parents bought 85 years ago, only to be driven out of ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Opal Lee has waited a long time for the keys placed in her hand on Friday. The Texas 97-year-old known as the “grandmother” of Juneteenth was presented with the keys to ...

Opal Lee, the 97-year ... was given the keys Friday to her new home, which was built on the same tree-lined corner lot in Fort Worth that her family was driven from by a racist mob when she was 12.