The "grandmother" of Juneteenth, Opal Lee, was honored with a special award in Houston on Thursday. Lee received the Kay Bailey Hutchison Women of Texas History Award at a luncheon in the Galleria ...

Crucial Texas history. American-Statesman ... Recently, you told me while we wandered around the “Juneteenth Rodeo” exhibit at the Neil-Cochran House that you have run across that same ...

Fort Worth City Council approves land National Juneteenth Museum previously given to Southside Community Center, operations ...

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In essence, Juneteenth is a second Independence Day. After 2½ bloody years of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed ...

(Courtesy BIG/KAI Enterprises) BIG’s design for the National Juneteenth Museum was first ... a bridge between the past and future, honoring history while nurturing community growth and ...

Since 2019, organizers have been working to create the center, a museum devoted to the history ... U.S. were freed in Texas. Thanks to advocates like Fort Worth’s Opal Lee, Juneteenth became ...

The "grandmother" of Juneteenth, Opal Lee, was honored with a special award in Houston on Thursday. Lee received the Kay Bailey Hutchison Women of Texas History Award at a luncheon in the Galleria ...

On June 19, 1865, news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas (two years after ... Bacon said Summerville Juneteenth is working to compile a history of Lincolnville as well.

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