Opal Lee is known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth for her efforts in getting the date recognized as a national holiday. FORT WORTH, Texas -- It was June 19, 1939, when Opal Lee remembers her parents ...

DALLAS -- Opal Lee, 95, spent years lobbying for federal recognition of Juneteenth, and her work finally paid off. "I still pinch myself sometimes, to see if it really happened," said Lee, known as ...

In 2016, Lee — then 89 — traveled 1,400 miles in a symbolic walk from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., to urge Congress and the Obama administration to declare Juneteenth a federal holiday. Opal Lee ...

Opal Lee, known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” is recovering in the hospital but “doing well and in good spirits,” her family says. The Fort Worth, Texas, civil rights leader is “still ...

Blavity can exclusively report that an upcoming graphic novel has been set on Opal Lee, aka the Grandmother of Juneteenth. The news of the book, First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth, ...

Lee told ABC News she is ready to rally for Vice President Kamala Harris. Opal Lee, the woman known by many as the "grandmother of the movement" to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, is attending her ...

Grandmother of Juneteenth Opal Lee is photographed in her new Fort Worth home office, January 15, 2025. Lee was named the 2021 "Texan of the Year" by The Dallas Morning News. In 2024, she was awarded ...

FORT WORTH, Texas -- It was June 19, 1939, when Opal Lee remembers her parents sending her to a friend's house several blocks away when an angry mob showed up at her family's home to protest Black ...