Opal Lee, the 97-year-old Texan known for her push to make Juneteenth a national holiday, led the annual Walk For Freedom in Dallas. The event recognized the two and a half years it took for enslaved people in Texas to find out they had been freed. The beginner’s guide to celebrating Juneteenth: https://bit.ly/4cvtvT9
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