Pan-African flag
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The Pan-African flag (also known as the Afro-American flag, Black Liberation flag, UNIA flag, and various other names) is an ethnic flag representing pan-Africanism, the African diaspora, and/or black nationalism.[1][2][3] A tri-color flag, it consists of three equal horizontal bands of (from top down) red, black, and green.[4]
Pan-African Flag Various other names | |
Use | Africans and Afro Caribbean/Americans. |
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Adopted | 13 August 1920 |
Design | A horizontal triband of red, black, and green. |
Designed by | Marcus Garvey |
The flag was created as a response to racism against African Americans in 1920 with the help of Marcus Garvey.[5] The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) formally adopted it on August 13, 1920, in Article 39 of the Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World, during its month-long convention at Madison Square Garden in New York City.[6][7] Variations of the flag can and have been used in various countries and territories in the Americas to represent Garveyist ideologies.