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To pull the plug that turned the lights off. that meant we are supposed to go home. why did i get on a flatbed truck and put that plug back in, and partied till dawn. >> 94 year old opal lee, reminiscing about celebrating juneteenth in fort worth, texas. we talked about miss openly last night on the show about how on juneteenth when she was just 12 years old in 1939, juneteenth the day marking the end of slavery in texas her family's home in fort worth was attacked and burned by a white mob. she's become an advocate to make juneteenth a federal holiday. she's been, all these years, a fixture o...

>> in his remarks, president biden said this, about opal lee. >> you are an incredible woman, miss opal. he really are. as a child, growing up in texas, 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. >> february of this year, opal lee again called on congress to pass the legislation that president biden signed into law today. >> juneteenth can be the unifier that's used to bring this country back together. as you begin the conversations that acknowledge the effects of the past ...

Biden signed the legislation to make juneteenth a u.s. federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the united states, he took a knee. he knelt in front of 94 year old opal lee, no one is the grandmother of juneteenth, because she has been advocating for over 40 years for juneteenth to become a federal holiday. >> looking out across this room, i see the advocates, the activists, the leaders who had been calling for the state for so long. including the one and only miss opal lee. [applause]