People from all walks of life, backgrounds and races contributed to Dr. Opal Lee’s tireless effort to bring racial healing and justice to Fort Worth, Texas. A group of Bahá’í friends gathered to walk with Opal in her annual Walk for Freedom. This effort to gather the friends together was organized by the Fort Worth City Cluster Area Teaching Committee and a couple of other friends. Approximately 12 friends gathered in the early morning at Evans Avenue plaza near downtown Fort Worth to join Opal in her annual 2.5 mile walk through downtown, to recognize the 2.5 years it took for the news of freedom to reach all enslaved people in the United States. Ms. Opal Lee continues the mission to educate the country about freedom by walking these 2.5 miles annually.

Many of these same walkers joined others near Panther Island for a music & food festival with international and local artists to celebrate the accomplishments and historical significance of June 19, 1865. The committee and Bahá’í friends staffed a Bahá’í Faith booth where conversation and reading material were shared, and new relationships built.

An exciting new relationship that is building out of that effort is a new initiative of a group of Bahá’í friends who are volunteering at Opal Lee’s Farm (https://www.unityunlimited.org/opals-farm.html.) where her urban farm is providing farm-fresh, nutritious food for residents of the city. The five-acre urban farm east of downtown addresses local food deserts and revitalizes the health of local neighborhoods.

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