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Opal Lee, left, applauds during a ceremony before aising the first wall to her new home on her family's former lot in Fort Worth, Texas on Thursday, March 21, 2024. Lee, one of the driving forces behind Juneteenth becoming a national holiday, attended a ceremony to watch as the walls are raised on new home. In 1939, a racist mob drove her family out of their home. (Amanda McCoy /Star-Telegram via AP)
Opal Lee, center, cuts a wood board for the construction of her new home with the help of Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker, right, and Trinity Habitat of Humanity CEO Gage Yager, left, on Thursday, March 21, 2024, in Fort Worth, Texas. Lee, one of the driving forces behind Juneteenth becoming a national holiday, attended a ceremony to watch as the walls are raised on new home. In 1939, a racist mob drove her family out of their home. (Amanda McCoy /Star-Telegram via AP)
Opal Lee and others raise the first wall to her new home on Thursday, March 21, 2024, in Fort Worth, Texas. Lee, one of the driving forces behind Juneteenth becoming a national holiday, attended a ceremony to watch as the walls are raised on new home. In 1939, a racist mob drove her family out of their home. (Amanda McCoy /Star-Telegram via AP)