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.

Ninety-seven-year-old Opal Lee, the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” received the keys to her new Fort Worth, Texas, home on June 14.

Dunbar Elementary teacher Opal Roland, center, later Opal Lee, was a speaker June 8, 1969, at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Living Textbook Conference at the University of Texas at Arlington.

It is impossible to talk about the journey to making Juneteenth a national holiday without mentioning Opal Lee. Referred to as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” the 95-year-old Texas native ...

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 morning ...

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, 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.

Opal Lee, a 97-year-old activist who was forced out of her Fort Worth, Texas, home by a racist mob when she was 12 years old, is preparing to move into her brand new home on the same property.

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 ...

Opal Lee’s 2.5-mile walk through the Historic Southside of Fort Worth represents the time it took for news of Emancipation Proclamation to reach enslaved Texans.

Opal Lee encourages young people to get involved in enacting change at Philadelphia’s Juneteenth flag raising at City Hall in Philadelphia, on June 5, 2023. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) The diminutive Lee ...

Dunbar Elementary teacher Opal Roland, center, later Opal Lee, was a speaker June 8, 1969, at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Living Textbook Conference at the University of Texas at Arlington.