Opal Lee, the 97-year-old “ grandmother of Juneteenth,” is getting a new home on the exact spot where a racist white mob trashed her family’s house more than 80 years ago. On Thursday ...

Opal Lee, the 97-year-old “ grandmother of Juneteenth,” is getting a new home on the exact spot where a racist white mob trashed her family’s house more than 80 years ago. On Thursday ...

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 a ...

A racist mob burned down Opal Lee's family home in 1939; recently, Habitat for Humanity helped build the activist a new home on the same site Dia Dipasupil/Getty This year, Juneteenth is even more ...

Opal Lee, center, speaks during an Honorary Degree Symposium at SMU's Frances Anne Moody Hall in Dallas, TX, on May 9, 2024. (Jason Janik/Special Contributor) (Jason Janik / Special Contributor) ...

Opal Lee, the 97-year-old Grandmother of Juneteenth who pushed to make it a national holiday, moved into a new house on the site of her burned childhood home in Fort Worth, Texas.

Opal Lee and her family were burned out of their Fort Worth home more than 80 years ago. Now, she's gotten the land back.

People gather outside Opal Lee's new house in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, June 14, 2024. Habitat for Humanity built Lee the home on the same lot where, as a child, a white mob destroyed her family ...

Opal Lee smiles while sitting on the porch of her new house in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, June 14, 2024. Habitat for Humanity built Lee the home on the same lot where as a child a white mob ...

In 2020, Opal Lee stood in front of the East Annie Street lot where white rioters attacked, invaded and burned her family’s home in 1939. Amanda McCoy [email protected] ...

Opal Lee, left, applauds during a ceremony before aising the first wall to her new home on her family’s former lot in Fort Worth, Texas on Thursday, March 21, 2024.

Lee was 89-years-old when she decided “something can be done” to make Juneteenth a formal and nationally recognized holiday. She grew up celebrating the holiday in Marshall, Texas, and says ...