I didn't know white people until we got to Fort Worth. AdvertisementMy family bought a home in a neighborhood where we weren't wanted, but we didn't know that. LM Otero/APRegaining our landI went to Fort Worth's first Black high school and graduated when I was 16 years old. One day years later, a friend of mine who works at the Star-Telegram, a local newspaper in Fort Worth, mentioned the land my family had bought all those years ago. Opal Lee (bottom second from left) attended President Joe Biden's signing of the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act.

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Persons: —, Opal Lee, weren't, Lee, It's, LM Otero, Fort Worth's, Gage Yager, Gage, I'm twerking, Juneteenth, Joe Biden's, Evan Vucci Organizations: Service, Business, AP, Fort, Wiley College, Star, Humanity Locations: Marshall , Texas, Fort Worth, Marshall