The Grandmother of Juneteenth – who lost her house on the same lot to a racist mob 85 years ago – smiled as she took the key to the 1,700-square-feet, three-bed...
85 years after a racist mob destroyed her home, Grandmother of Juneteenth celebrated her homecoming with family, friends, community. JCPenney donated small kitchen appliances, dinnerware, and home décor for her kitchen and living spaces as well as all linens for the bedrooms and bathrooms.Trinity Habitat for Humanity CEO Gage Yagar gave Lee a new black Bible. The Rev. Walter McDonald, pastor at Lee’s longtime congregation of Baker Chapel AME Church, prayed for blessings over her home.
“When we started to figure out what those mementos would be, my grandmother went to her closet and pulled out one of my great-grandmother’s dresses she had maintained there for all these 30 years to be laid here,” Toliver said through tears. “This is like hallowed ground for me and my family.
Nelson Mitchell, CEO of History Maker Homes, said his team wrote notes and scriptures of encouragement on the wood framing before workers attached the sheet rock.
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