'I still pinch myself sometimes, to see if it really happened,' said Lee, known as the 'grandmother of Juneteenth.'
DALLAS -- Opal Lee, 95, spent years lobbying for federal recognition of Juneteenth, and her work finally paid off.
"I still pinch myself sometimes, to see if it really happened," said Lee, known as the"grandmother of Juneteenth.""To be invited to the White House, to see Juneteenth signed into law? Oh, I was humbled. I wanted to do a holy dance, but the kids say I try, I'm twerking," she said.Lee organized dozens of 2.5-mile walks to bring awareness to the two and a half years it took for the Emancipation Proclamation to be enforced in Texas.
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