Opal Lee, left, applauds during a ceremony before aising the first wall to her new home on her family's former lot in Fort Worth, Texas on Thursday, March 21, 2024. Lee, one of the driving forces behind Juneteenth becoming a national holiday, attended a ceremony to watch as the walls are raised on new home. In 1939, a racist mob drove her family out of their home. (Amanda McCoy /Star-Telegram via AP)
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