The Tex Factor: The journey of Opal Lee

The Tex Factor: The Journey of Opal Lee

Opal Lee is an author, a teacher, a civil rights activist, and she?s known as ?The Grandmother of Juneteenth.? The Tex Factor sat down with the 96-year-old Fort Worth resident to learn about her life-long journey helping others. And how, at 89, she started a nationwide movement that would result in Juneteenth becoming a national holiday.

FORT WORTH, Texas - Opal Lee is an author, a teacher, a civil rights activist, and she’s known as "The Grandmother of Juneteenth." 

The Tex Factor sat down with the 96-year-old Fort Worth resident to learn about her life-long journey helping others and how, at 89, she started a nationwide movement that would result in Juneteenth becoming a national holiday.