06/19/2024
"Consider Opal Lee. The former teacher is often called “the grandmother of Juneteenth” for her decades of activism to get it designated a federal holiday. When she was a young girl, a mob of white supremacists attacked her Texas home and burned the furniture on Juneteeth in 1939.
In 2016, a month before she turned 90, Lee set off on a four-month walk from her hometown of Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., to publicize her cause. In 2021, Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support passed a bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday, and President Biden signed it into law.
Last month, at 97, Lee stepped across the floor at a White House ceremony to be embraced by Biden as he placed the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, around her neck.
Lee told an interviewer that day: “I keep saying over and over: From the 19th of June to the 4th of July, we should be celebrating freedom.”
Indeed, all Americans, of all backgrounds, should."
LETS DO IT!! 15 DAYS OF FREEDOM FOR EVERYONE CELEBRATIONS!!!!
Ms. Opal is a voice of history with a message for the future. Many consider her the “Grandmother of Juneteenth” who is passionate about life and making Juneteenth a national holiday.
