Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free

By Alice Faye Duncan
Picture Books
Review:

Celebrate the joys of freedom with Opal Lee as she tells the story of how she and her people enjoyed the right of being free. Many hard times shaped her into the daring and confident woman who petitioned to make Juneteenth a national holiday. Read her inspiring words and don’t take for granted the blessing it is to taste freedom.

(Reviewed by Kate Phillips)

Region Texas
Period 1800s–1900s
Genre Biography
Digital Format Audiobook, E-book
The Good and the Beautiful Library No
  • Audiobook
  • E-Book
  • 2 Entertainment Value
  • 4 Moral Value
  • 5 Educational Value
  • 3 Literary Value
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