ABC News published this video item, entitled “Meet Opal Lee, the Juneteenth ‘grandmother of the movement’” – below is their description.
In 2016, 89-year-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. She attended the signing on Thursday.
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