Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20210617:19:54:00
Presence of opal lee. as my mother would say, god love her. [applause] have the honor of meeting her a year ago. she told me she loved me. i believed it. i wanted to believe it. opal, you're incredible. a daughter of texas. grandmother of the movement to make juneteenth a federal holiday. mrs. opal, you won't believe it, she's 49 years old. [laughter] our 94 years old. you are an incredible woman, miss opal. you are. as a child growing up in texas, she and her family would celebrate juneteenth. juneteenth, 1939 when she was 12 years old, a white mob torched her family home.