Parades Around Washington, D.C. Area Celebrate Juneteenth Holiday

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 19: Members of the U.S. Colored Troops and Buffalo Soldiers, an organization of living historians and re-enactors from Maryland, Georgia, Massachusetts and other states, pose for photographs at the Lincoln Memorial during the Juneteenth People's Parade on June 19, 2024 in Washington, DC. The first federal holiday to be established in almost 40 years, the Juneteenth National Independence Day marks the day in 1865 when the last enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned that they had been freed two years earlier by the Emancipation Proclamation. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)