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Rapper Niko Brim & Opal Lee Take Long Strides to Make Juneteenth a National Holiday With Special Sneakers: Exclusive

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What shoes are fit for an 89-year-old woman trekking nearly 1,400 miles from Fort Worth, Texas to Washington, D.C. to fight for Juneteenth, the day slavery ended in America, to be recognized as a national holiday?

Ms. Opal Lee, who's 93 now, made the four-month journey on foot from Sept. 16, 2016 to Jan. 10, 2017 to symbolize what Juneteenth, or Freedom Day, really means.

On June 19, 1865, Black Texans, who were the last remaining enslaved Americans, received news from Major General Gordon Granger that they were free at last, two-and-a-half years after then-President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation that went into effect on Jan.

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