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Joe Biden: “You are an incredible woman, Miss Opal. You really are. As a child growing up in Texas, she and her family would…”

On the recordJune 17, 2021
You are an incredible woman, Miss Opal. You really are. As a child growing up in Texas, she and her family would celebrate Juneteenth. In Juneteenth 1939 when she was 12 years old, a white mob torched her family home. But such hate never stopped her.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

President Biden praises Opal Lee for her advocacy and recounts her childhood experience related to Juneteenth.

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