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Opal Lee gets keys to her new Texas home 85 years after a racist mob drove her family from that lot

Opal Lee, the 97-year-old Texan known for her push to make Juneteenth a national holiday, was given the keys Friday to her new home. It was built on the same corner lot in Fort Worth that her family was driven from by a racist mob when she was 12.

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