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Were all good things and this was institutionalized in k through 12 education as late as the 1960s and 70s in some places. when we think of lost cause its why we have birth of a nation. the 1915 silent film thats considered a classic that has white actors in black face trying to rape white women. its why we have "gone with the wind," the biggest box office hit of all time in 1939 having this mythology about racial slavery. its why when we think about the 1940s and the 1950s and the 60s, during t...

I love your piece. it has been one of my big issues for decades. your piece shows just how the struggle spans generations. you also spoke to opal lee who one year ago talked about this as a reality. her family was fire bombed out of their home in texas back when she was 12 years old in 1939. >> opal lee, they call her the grandmother of juneteenth. she has been fighting to get it recognized. so many folks today are still without the wholeness of american freedom and democracy. lets listen to the...

She and her family would celebrate juneteenth. and juneteenth, 1939 when she was 12 years old, a white mob torched her family home. but such hate never stopped her. >> wow. all right. lets go to the coronavirus pandemic. the biden administration announced major effort to build up the countrys supply of drugs used to treat covid-19 and other viruses. the plan called the anti-viral program for pandemics would speed up clinical trials of promising treatments and also accelerate the development and ...

Remembers freedom day, when federal troops set free the last remaining troops in america in galveston, the, who had no ideas they had been freed years before. one of the americans fighting for this recognition, 94-year-old opal lee of texas. her home set on fire by rioters on juneteenth, 1939, so for years now shes been walking two mi miles. speaking before lawmakers, petitioning congress, delivering more than 1.5 million signatures to make it a holiday. even walking an astonishing 1,400 miles f...

Time. it has been a paid state holiday in texas since 1979. as in that local news article in 1939, the day was sometimes delicately described as the observance of emancipation, june dean -- juneteenth, emancipation day, liberation day, today it is a national holiday. despite the attack on her family home in 1939, when she was just 12 years ago old, both young enough and old enough to be deeply scarred and scared for life by something like that, young miss opal, again 12 years old when it happene...

Avenue in ft. worth in the fifth ward in ft. worth. a neighborhood today that is hemmed in on three sides bay zillion lanes of interstate and major highways that sort of have the effect of cutting it off from a lot of the rest of ft. worth, but back in the late 1930s, that of course was before all of the interstates and all of that, and the most important thing to know about that neighborhood when it came to young 12-year-old opal and her family, was that they were a black family that was moving...

That aws wasnt 1939 at that -- that wasnt 1939 at that mob attack on east annie street in ft. worth. that interview on the fox news streaming channel conducted by one of the prime time hosts, that was last night. we have a new national holiday commemorating the end of slavery, as of today. federal workers will have tomorrow off and in honor of the juneteenth holiday, and it is saturday, it will be observed tomorrow, weve got a new holiday for that as of today. thanks in large part to opal lee. w...

Holiday. you are an incredible woman, you really, are she made it her mission to see that this day came. it was almost a singular mission. shes walked for miles and miles, literally and figuratively, to bring attention to juneteenth. to make this day possible. i ask once again, we all stand and give her a warm welcome. [ applause ] >> 94 years old and remarkable acknowledgment of the work of ms. opal lee today at the white house. you think about the two sides of this in her life. right? 12 years...

Jackson, people gathered, the police couldnt control them, my dad came home with a gun. if they had given us an opportunity to stay there and be thab nas, they would have found out we didnt want any more than they had, a decent place to stay, jobs that paid, to be able to go to school in the neighborhood, even if it was a segregated school. we would have made good neighbors, she said. but they didnt give us an opportunity. and i felt like everybody needs an opportunity. again, that attack that b...

Subjugation and a promise of a brighter day to come. this is a day, in my view of profound weight and profound power. today, i want you to remember the moral stain and the terrible toll that slavery took on the country and continues to take. >> before signing the bill yesterday, biden gave special recognition to 94-year-old opal lee. she is known as the grandmother of juneteenth, because shes been advocating for over 40 years for juneteenth to become a federal holiday. >> you are an incredible w...