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Kansas governor recognizes ‘little lady in tennis shoes’ advocating for national Juneteenth holiday
Each year since 2016, when she was 89, Opal Lee has walked from her home in Fort Worth across the country, stopping everywhere from Washington, D.C. to North Carolina to Kansas, in an effort to make Juneteenth a national holiday.