Opal Lee, a member of Zeta Phi Beta and renowned advocate for Juneteenth, will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden today according to the White House. The announcement comes as a recognition of Lee’s tireless efforts to establish Juneteenth as a national holiday in the United States. The Presidential Medal […]
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Opal Lee, the 97-year-old civil rights activist who was forced to leave her family’s Texas home 80 years ago when a racist mob damaged the property, has now received the same land as a gift. Lee is receiving the land from Habitat for Humanity, which builds affordable housing in communities across the U.S. The Texas […]
95-year-old Opal Lee who is know for Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., to demanding politicians to make Juneteenth a national holiday earning her the nickname “Grandmother of Juneteenth.” “I decided that maybe if a little old lady, 89 years old, in tennis shoes walking from Fort Worth to Washington, somebody would pay attention,” Lee told […]
Did you know that the ‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’, Opal Lee, is a sorority sister of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.? In 2016, at the age of 89 years old, Opal Lee walked from her home in Fort Worth, Texas, to the nation’s capital in an effort to get Juneteenth named a national holiday. “My idea […]
Opal Lee, a staunch activist who has been petitioning to make Juneteenth a federal holiday for more than 40 years, shared a wholesome response after seeing her hard work finally come to fruition. “I’ve got so many feelings all gurgling up here. I don’t know what to call them all,” the 94-year-old said after learning […]