Opal Lee has seen a lot.The civil rights activist has marched across the country, served as an honored guest at the White House and even been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. She earned the nickname ...
“I said: ‘Well, Opal, we won’t sell it to you ... “We were frightened to death when our parents sent us away from the house,” Lee told WFAA. “To come back later to see it in shambles ...
Opal Lee, 94, was at the centre of a campaign to recognise Juneteenth as a national holiday in the US Opal Lee was 12 when a mob of white supremacists vandalised and set fire to her family's home ...