FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF) – U.S. Senator John Cornyn, and other lawmakers, joined “Grandmother of Juneteenth” Ms. Opal Lee and Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker on Monday to recognize Juneteenth, a celebration marking the news of freedom reaching enslaved people in Texas years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Lincoln in 1863.
In 2021, Senator Cornyn and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee successfully passed their law making Juneteenth a federal holiday.
The annual walk covers part of the Historic Southside neighborhood near the site of the future home of the National Juneteenth Museum.
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