{"id":240320,"date":"2026-04-08T12:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/240320\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:32:11","slug":"opal-lees-granddaughter-advocates-for-grandmother-of-juneteenth-to-be-included-in-texas-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/240320\/","title":{"rendered":"Opal Lee&#8217;s granddaughter advocates for &#8220;Grandmother of Juneteenth&#8221; to be included in Texas curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The granddaughter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/opal-lee-walk-for-freedom-2025-fort-worth-juneteenth\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dr. Opal Lee<\/a>, famously known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/grandmother-juneteenth-opal-lee-calls-for-unity-letter-president-trump-inauguration-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Grandmother of Juneteenth&#8221;<\/a> was in Austin Tuesday to advocate for the inclusion her grandmother in Texas&#8217; Juneteenth curriculum.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lee is nearly 100 years old and lives in Fort Worth. She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/biden-opal-lee-presidential-medal-of-freedom-ceremony-grandmother-of-juneteenth\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2024<\/a> and was by President Biden&#8217;s side when he<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/biden-signs-bill-juneteenth-federal-holiday-opal-lee\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> made Juneteenth a federal holiday<\/a> in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to petition for her to be a required person to study Juneteenth,&#8221; said granddaughter Dione Sims. &#8220;People that have to do with freedom, liberty, and unity; she&#8217;s the embodiment of that. Helping to get Juneteenth as a national holiday, I think deserves to be mentioned.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sims testified in front of the State Board of Education Tuesday night. A final decision is expected in June.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The granddaughter of Dr. Opal Lee, famously known as the &#8220;Grandmother of Juneteenth&#8221; was in Austin Tuesday to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-240320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}