The Juneteenth celebration in Annapolis features a parade that winds from the City Dock through downtown, passing the Maryland State House before heading to a festival with live music and family activities.(Craig Hudson for The Washington Post)Throughout the D.C. area, Juneteenth has long been a time of celebration: parades, festivals and events remembering the day in 1865 when the enslaved people of Galveston, Tex., were told that, "in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free," as had been promised in the Emancipation Proclamation 2½ years earlier.
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