Joseph Biden actually said...

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

06/17/2021

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