Happy Juneteenth!

Juneteenth Celebration

Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications and Renee Flores

McGovern Medical School hosts a Juneteenth Celebration, June 17 in the Leather Lounge. On June 19, 1865, freedom finally came to Texas when 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas confirming the news that the Civil War had ended.