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They don’t ignore those moments of the past. “Great nations don’t ignore their most painful moments. pl3tFSxGds- President Biden June 18, 2021 And the grandmother of the movement to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. I was honored to welcome Miss Opal Lee to the White House today. Ms Lee trekked across the US from Fort Worth Texas to Washington DC in 2016 to raise awareness about Juneteenth and for pressurising lawmakers and the White House to recognise it as a national holiday. “But such hate never stopped her any more than it stopped the vast majority of you I’m looking at from this podium,” he said.Īsking the audience to give her a standing ovation, Mr Biden said, “over the course of decades, she’s made it her mission to see that this day came. Ms Lee was 12 when a white mob torched her family home in Texas on Juneteenth, 1939, said Mr Biden. Ms Lee received the special greeting from the president, along with the pen that he used to sign the bill recognising 19 June as the 11th national holiday, reported Business Insider.Ĭalling her the “grandmother of the movement,” Mr Biden said, “We’re blessed to mark the day in the presence of Ms Opal Lee - as my mother would say, ‘God, love her.’” Ninety-four-year-old activist and retired educator Opal Lee, known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth, speaks with US president Joe Biden after he signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law in the East Room of the White House on 17 June 2021 in Washington, DC - Getty Images President Joe Biden got down on one knee to greet Opal Lee, a 94-year-old woman who advocated for decades to make Juneteenth - a day commemorating the end of slavery in America - a federal holiday. ITV This Morning viewers slam 'pathetic' show after 'elephant' makes messy appearance