Activist Opal Lee – the “grandmother of Juneteenth” – worked for years to get June 19th successfully declared a federal holiday as a day of remembrance, celebration and hope. At the young age of 12, she saw firsthand the horrors of racism when a large white mob destroyed her family’s home in Texas, but that only motivated her to use her life to help make positive change.
Lee believes that “we are one people” and hopes Juneteenth unifies the nation behind that idea.
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