Opal Lee gets keys to her new Texas home 85 years after a racist mob drove her family from that lot - The 97-year-old Texan ...

Ninety-seven-year-old Opal Lee, the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” received the keys to her new Fort Worth, Texas, home on June 14 ... worked like Trojans to get us out of there.

A racist mob burned down Opal Lee's family home in ... The 97-year-old received the keys to her new house this week, built where her family's Fort Worth, Texas, home was burned down by a racist ...

New house is on same Texas lot where family home was burned by white rioters. It was June 19, 1939, when Opal Lee remembers her ... has received keys to a new home built on the site of the ...

Eighty-five years later, Lee, now 97, got the keys to a new home - at ... and ‘grandmother of Juneteenth’ Opal Lee moves into her new home in Texas on the same lot where a racist mob burned ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Opal Lee, the 97-year-old Texan known for her push to make Juneteenth a national holiday, was given the keys Friday to her new home ... of trying to get the lot back.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Opal Lee has waited a long time for the keys placed in her hand on Friday. The Texas 97-year-old known as the “grandmother” of Juneteenth was presented with the keys to ...