Juneteenth Campus Hours

In observance of Juneteenth, offices at Hardin-Simmons University will be closed on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Office hours will return to normal operation on Thursday, June 20, 2024.

On June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, with the delayed news of the Emancipation Proclamation. That day, two years later than intended, more than 250,000 enslaved African-American people in the state were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as Juneteenth by the newly freed people in Texas.