Opal Lee has received keys to a new house built on the site of her childhood home 85 years after her family was driven out by an angry mob.

More than 80 years have passed since a racist mob destroyed Opal Lee’s family home in Fort Worth, ... “They brought the plans to me, where Habitat planned to build a house for me on that lot.

Opal Lee never lost hope that one day she would return to her childhood home. A racist mob burned down her house at 940 E. Annie St. in 1939. Fire turned her family’s home to ashes.

More than 80 years have passed since a racist mob destroyed Opal Lee’s family home in Fort Worth, Texas, but the 97-year-old said she still remembers the White crowd that forced her family out ...