Opal Lee’s house was burned by a racist mob eighty years ago. “Grandmother of Juneteenth” is currently taking back the property her family once owned.
Opal Lee, 97, stated she could still clearly recall the White mob that drove her family from their Fort Worth, Texas, home more than 80 years after they were destroyed by a racist mob.
"Our parents put in a lot of labor. then after that they purchased this house on Annie Street," Lee recalled of the place she grew up in. "My mother had it beautifully fixed up."
However, Lee said that soon after they moved in, a group of White individuals gathered because they were upset that a Black family had bought a home in the area.
Would you believe that people began to assemble on June 19? Additionally, there were police present, but they did nothing, Lee Our parents dropped us off at a friend's house a few blocks away. Then, when night fell, they departed.
"Those individuals disposed of...