94-Year-Old Opal Lee's Lifelong Fight To Make Juneteenth A Federal Holiday Finally A Reality

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94-Year-Old Opal Lee's Lifelong Fight To Make Juneteenth A Federal Holiday Finally A Reality

As Erin Jones reports, Lee is known as the grandmother of Juneteenth.

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