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 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.

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.