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Lee’s grandfather, the one born two years after Juneteenth 1865, was also the first Black man to work as a letter carrier in Texas, which she knows from seeing photos of him riding horseback.
This Thursday marks 160 years since the origin of Juneteenth. Here's what to know about the holiday and why' it's celebrated.
Opal Lee, known to many as "The Grandmother of Juneteenth," will not participate in this year’s Walk for Freedom march due to a recent hospitalization.
Opal Lee, the Grandmother of Juneteenth, center, walks through Fair Park with her granddaughter Dione Sims, second from left and hundreds of participants during 2024 Opal's Walk for Freedom ...
In 2016, at age 89, Opal Lee set out to walk from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., a symbolic 1,400-mile journey, to raise awareness and advocate for Juneteenth to be recognized as a national holiday.
OAKLAND — The country was still six decades away from recognizing Juneteenth as a federal holiday when Barbara Lee first moved from El Paso, Texas, to Southern California, where she had to petition ...
Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, with a history dating back to the 1860s.
In 2016, at 89 years old, Lee, a former teacher and lifelong activist, walked from her home in Fort Worth, Texas, to the nation's capital in an effort to get Juneteenth -- commemorating the end of ...
On Juneteenth in 2020, Lee, a social activist and retired teacher, walked 2.5 miles from the Fort Worth Convention Center down Lancaster to the Will Rogers Auditorium.
The holiday to mark the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued on June 19, 1865, as Union troops arrived in Galveston at the end of the Civil War. General Order No. 3 declared that ...
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