In 1939, when Opal Lee was just 12, her family moved into a house that stood in an all-White neighborhood. They had lived at the home for just five days when a mob showed up and “tore it asunder.” More than eight decades later, she owns the land again. Steve Hartman has her story in “On the Road.”
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