The grandmother of Juneteenth will also have a house built on the property.
In 1939, when Opal Lee was just 12 years old, she and her family fled their Fort Worth, Texas, home following threats from a racist mob who eventually destroyed the house and the family’s belongings.
Now, the 97-year-old Lee has the land back, and a
Habitat did one better. It sold the lot to Lee for $10 and offered to build her a house, The Washington Post reported. The groundbreaking happened last September.
“It’s both an amazing and terrible story, and hopefully, as she says, it comes full circle,” Yager told the Post. “We’ll build a home, laugh, cry and move her in. And we’ll celebrate the moment when that happens.”
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