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Opal Lee's Walk for Freedom wrapped up in Fort Worth Thursday morning, but it was missing the person who started it all.
Opal Lee, 98, (center) will not attend this year’s Walk of Freedom, recognizing the Juneteenth holiday, due to health ...
The Walk for Freedom is held on Juneteenth to mark the two-and-a-half-year delay between the Emancipation Proclamation and ...
Roderick Miles Jr., the Tarrant County Commissioner of Precinct 1, hugs Dione Sims, the granddaughter of Opal Lee, following ...
Opal Lee, "The Grandmother of Juneteenth," will participate virtually in this year's Walk for Freedom after her recent ...
Thursday will mark 160 years since Union forces landed in Galveston with news that enslaved Texans had been emancipated more ...
The walk is a symbolic gesture recognizing the 2 1/2 years it took for news of freedom to reach enslaved people in Texas ...
The day became a federal holiday June 17, 2021, with Lee in attendance as President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth bill into ...
Opal Lee, known to many as "The Grandmother of Juneteenth," will not participate in this year’s Walk for Freedom march due to ...
Opal Lee 's Walk for Freedom may soon stretch far beyond its traditional 2.5-mile route in Fort Worth. Lee's granddaughter, ...
Grandmother of Juneteenth” Opal Lee, recovering from a recent hospitalization, will not participate in her annual Walk for ...
In 1939 on the 19th of June, just days after she and her family had moved into a predominantly white neighbourhood in Fort Worth, Texas, their house was destroyed by a white mob. Opal was just 12. The ...