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 concerns, but she plans to participate virtually. She’s shown here at the walk in ...

The Walk for Freedom is held on Juneteenth to mark the two-and-a-half-year delay between the Emancipation Proclamation and the freedom of enslaved people in Texas. Lee, known as the grandmother of ...

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 law. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Biden in May 2024 ...

Opal Lee 's Walk for Freedom may soon stretch far beyond its traditional 2.5-mile route in Fort Worth. Lee's granddaughter, ...

Columnist Bud Kennedy has written about Fort Worth activist Opal Lee since 2015, when she talked publicly for the first time about the Juneteenth 1939 attack by a white mob that ransacked her ...

Opal Lee first made national headlines in 2016, when the then-89-year-old walked more than 1,400 miles from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., in a campaign to convince lawmakers to recognize ...

Opal Lee hadn’t seen inside her new home Friday morning in Fort Worth as she rocked in a white chair on the front porch.. The Grandmother of Juneteenth — who lost her house on the same lot to ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Opal Lee had a simple rule in her home. If her kids were reading a book, they didn’t have to clean. “I didn’t disturb them,” Lee said. “I’d rather they read than ...

A new portrait of Opal Lee by Fort Worth artist Sedrick Huckaby is on display at the Amon Carter Museum this weekend, July 7-9, 2023. A new portrait of Opal Lee, “Grandmother of Juneteenth ...