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‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ taking back land where childhood home was burned by racist mob in 1939

(FORT WORTH, Texas) -- Opal Lee was only 12 years old when a racist white mob stormed and set fire to her home on 940 East Annie Street in Fort Worth, Texas. The violence raged on June 19, 1939 -- the date now known ...