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The Red, Black and Green flag represents the entire African nation (black people everywhere). It was voted to be the flag of Africa on August 12, 1920 by Marcus Garvey and the thousands of members of the Universal
Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), at their conference in Brooklyn NY. Different sizes & prices available:
The larger flags come with grommets for easy hanging. Size: 4" x 6" 12 x 18" 24" x 36" (2x3 feet) 36" x 60" (3x5 feet) This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website Last modified: 2022-10-22 by rick wyatt
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Red-Black-Greenimage by Rick Wyatt, 5 April 1998 Green, black, and red are the Garvey colors, after Marcus Garvey, a civil rights movement leader. If I recall correctly, he promoted the "returning to Africa" -- if not geographically, at least by
"rediscovering" the ancestral heritage of African Americans. The colors are as represented on the flag, Red, Black and Green (not Green, black and red ) and did indeed evolve from Marcus Garvey's UNIA movement. However, the colors were adopted by an international assemblage of 25 countries of the African diaspora, thereby making the colors international. African Americans have held proudly onto their banner for the past 78 years hoisting it under various titles: International African Flag, The African Flag, Pan African Flag, Liberation Flag, Black Flag, African American Flag, Afro-American Flag and others. Yes, the colors were hoisted first in the United States and, it represents all peoples of the African Diaspora regardless of land of birth. Rasta colors and The Pan African (Garvey Flag) colors not the same and should not be confused. Rasta colors are the Ethiopian colors of green, gold and red. Beatrice C. Jones, 16 November 1998 The RED, BLACK and GREEN Flag was unveiled to the world by the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey and the members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, of the World at it's first international convention on August 13, 1920. The UNIA-ACL knew that Africans at home and abroad needed their own flag as other flags around the world could not represent the collective of African people. The use of Red, Black and Green as colors symbolizing African nationhood was first "adopted by the UNIA-ACL as part of the 1920 Declaration of Rights as the official colors of the African race. The question of a flag for the race was not as trivial as might have appeared on the surface, for in the United States especially, the lack of an African symbol of nationhood seems to have been cause for crude derision on the part of whites and a source of sensitivity on the part of Afro-Americans. The race catechism Garveyites used explained the significance of the red, black, and green as for the "color of the blood which men must shed for their redemption and liberty", black for "the color of the noble and distinguished race to which we belong," and green for "the luxuriant vegetation of our Motherland. Nnamdi Azikewe, 12 April 2000 My
understanding is that Garvey thought (erroneously) that these were the colors of ancient Ethiopia - the Ethiopia of today was known as Abyssinia at the time Garvey proposed the flag. My understanding is that Marcus Garvey was thinking of contemporary Ethiopia, which in the 1920's was the only African country that had never been colonized. He became aware of his error as to its national colors at the time of Haile Selassie's
coronation as emperor, but by that time the red/black/green flag was too well established to be changed. Red-Black-Green with Africa Outlineimage by Tomislav Todorovic, 8 August 2011 This
variant of Garvey's flag has unchanged color order, but is amended with a large outline of Africa in white. I have seen it offered for sale at several web shops, such as here: www.acaciawoodcarvings.com. Another source is
http://media.mlive.com/flint-journal/photo/9717317-standard.jpg (from http://photos.mlive.com/flint-journal/2011/06/post_1255.html), photo taken at the Juneteenth parade 2011. Red-Black-Green with Red Starimage by Tomislav Todorovic, 8 August 2011 This variant of Garvey's flag has unchanged color order, but is amended with a red star in center of the black field was seen in Oakland, California in 1989, at the funeral of Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther
Party. The photos from the event can be seen here: It was certainly brought there by
the Black Panthers' sympathizers, but is yet to be found if it was their official flag as well. So far, no evidence is available on the Web. It might be worth noting, though, that it seems that the New Black Panther Party, their self-designated successor, makes use of plain red-black-green flag only - at least, only that one was seen in the photos related to them so far. This flag is definitely used by the
African People's Socialist Party (APSP) Black-Red-Greenimage by Tomislav Todorovic, 7 August 2011 This variant of African-American flag uses the colors introduced by Marcus Garvey, but in a different order: The black-red-green flag has first appeared on a stamp issued by the United States Postal Service in 1997 to commemorate Kwanzaa, the African-American yearly celebration [1]. Compared with the Garvey's flag, it has the black and red fields with swapped places, so it might have been created as an error [2]. Still there are examples of its use in real life, like the African-American Parade in Cleveland, Ohio, on 2011-06-04, where at least one such flag was carried among many red-black-green flags [3]. There is also a blog entry about Kwanzaa [4] with two accompanied photos, one showing an African woman holding the said flag and another one showing the same woman with a little Caucasian girl before the kinara (the Kwanzaa candle holder), which is set upon a spread flag with this design. Sources: Tomislav Todorovic, 7 August 2011 Green-Black-Redimage by Tomislav Todorovic, 9 May 2015 Very rarely, Garvey's flag is used with the reversed color order - green-black-red. One example is from protests in Hartford, CT in August 2014 [1]. While there is the possibility that the flag used there was just the red-black-green one which was held upside-down, that is definitely not the case in the video for song "Weapon X" by hip-hop group X Clan, where the green-black-red flag is attached to a hand-held staff in a way which leaves no place for doubt. The flag can be seen, together with an Ethiopian flag (with the lion), several times during the video [2]. Sources:
Red-Green-Blackimage by Tomislav Todorovic, 14 January 2021 The red-green-black flag was hoisted in Buffalo on 2019-06-07 at the beginning of the Juneteenth Festival. The video from the flag raising ceremony can be viewed here: https://www.wivb.com/news/local-news/juneteenth-flag-raised-in-buffalo. In the beginning, a red-black-green flag can also be seen which was also brought to the ceremony. However, the red-green-black flag is seen throughout the video clearly enough to exclude any possible confusion about its pattern. 13 Stripesimage by Michael P. Smuda, 6 November 1998 I found another Afro-American flag while surfing the web. This flag was developed in 1989 in South Central L.A. I have never heard of this one. The red/black/green flag is made by all flag manufacturers. My guess is that this is a private venture. African American Flag of Inclusionimage by Tomislav Todorovic, 11 January 2015 Cecil Lee's first public showing of the African American Flag of Inclusion was in 1999 at a one man art show at Gallery X in Harlem. In 1998 he coined the term "Computer Evolved Multi-medium Art" a form of computer art from which the acronym "CEMA" is derived. Created in 1999 the "African American Flag of Inclusion" represents a concept that has long been part of many an African American's psyche, expressing a reality many of us consciously or unconsciously have acknowledged. It is also an identifying motif intended to represent all African Americans regardless of their individual beliefs or political affiliations. A symbol whose time has come The African American Flag of Inclusion reaches beyond religious, political and philosophical beliefs reflecting the African Americans' unique contributions and accomplishments toward the inventiveness, creativity, building, growth and stability of the United States of America. The elements of the African American Flag of Inclusion stand for: Source: ceelee.com/flag/index.htm Flag of the "African American Flag House"image by Rick Wyatt, 3 December 2001 Meaning of the Stars:
Submitted by Dov Gutterman, 4 April 1999 Afro-American Community Services Organizationimage by Paul San Pavlos, 27 December 2002 I observed in Santa Barbara. It was labeled: "Flag of Afro-Americans by the Afro-American Community Services Organization." I have neither been able to locate them on the web or in the Santa Barbara phone directory. I know nothing more about this flag, its usage, origins, etc. African-American Heritage Flagimage by Pete Loeser, 7 December 2016 This flag has been seen about five miles from Springfield, Massachusetts, and has been determined to be the African-American Heritage Flag. It was
developed about 20 years ago [i.e., the 1980s] and has been marketed by the designer. It does not have any official status. The wreath and sword refer to traditional African symbols. I had this flag in the 1970s as part of my collection of Black American History studies. I gave it to an artist friend of mine to make a painting of it and never saw it again. The Black
American Heritage flag was designed in 1967 by Melvin Charles and Gleason T. Jackson. According to the designers, "...the elements of the flag include the color black to represent pride and pigmentation and race; red, to remind us of the rich blood black men have shed for freedom, equality, justice and human dignity throughout the world; and gold, to represent intellect, prosperity, and peace. These colors are woven into a composition that juxtaposes the red and black in a set of three stripes:
one black stripe centered between two red." source: Historical Flags of Our Ancestors Black-Green-Red Stars & Stripesimage by Tomislav Todorovic, 20 June 2012 The flag shown here was carried in Washington, D.C. on 20 January 2009 by some people who attended the inauguration of President Barack Obama. It resembles one of the flags reported to have appeared at the at Juneteenth parade in 2011, but the stars are green here. The photo of the flag can be seen here:
cache.jezebel.com/assets/images/39/2009/01/medium_african_american_flag.jpg Three variants of the U.S. flag repainted in Garvey colors were reported by Steve Shumaker. Here follows the info about their creator and meanings of each of them. Each of them has a name of its own. These flags, known under the common name of All American Flags, are created by Carl Sharif of Newark, New Jersey, and sold by his company Us For Once, Inc. More details about the company at its website: www.usforonce.com/about.html. All American Flag, Mainlander: The flag with seven black and six green stripes and red stars on black canton is dedicated to the memory of all Africans who lost their lives during the Middle Passage, which is another name for slave trade. Black stripes stand for their deaths and green ones for their youth, for
most of them were young people. Black canton stands for the African origins of the flag users and red for the blood spilled by their ancestors, not only during the Middle Passage, but also during the latter sufferings and struggles in America. As such, the flag is also recommended for use at the funerals.
All American Flag, Islander: While the canton is identical as on the previous flag and given the same meaning, the stripes are repainted into Garvey colors,
alternating black (topmost), green and red and ending with black at the bottom. The flag design denotes that African traditions in the New World are best preserved in the Caribbean Islands and South America and also reminds of the fact that Marcus Garvey was a native of Jamaica. All American Flag, Middle
Passage: While sharing the same canton and its meaning with two other flags, this flag has seven red and six green stripes. Intentionally made to be the most similar with the U.S. national
flag, it is meant to represent the North American people of African origin and their struggles and sacrifices. Another source is
http://media.mlive.com/flint-journal/photo/9717403-standard.jpg, from http://photos.mlive.com/flint-journal/2011/06/post_1261.html photo taken at the Juneteenth parade 2011. Black American National Flagimage by Pete Loeser and Tomislav Todorovic, 7 October 2012 This flag is derived from the USA national flag by repainting it as follows: the canton is black, the stars are red and the stripes are in Garvey colors, alternating black (topmost), green and red and ending with black at the bottom. This is actually identical to the All American Flag, Islander by Carl Sharif but it is not clear if there are any connections. Under this newly discovered name, the flag was used at the Martin Luther King, Jr. African-American Heritage Rodeo, which takes place in Denver, Colorado. Its currently available photos date from 2016 [1, 2], 2017 [3] and 2018 [4]. Sources: Tomislav Todorovic, 2 September 2019 The flag was used again at the Black Lives Matter Plaza,
Washington, DC during the Juneteenth celebration on 2020-06-19. It was hoisted together with a smaller Garvey Flag atop the same staff. The photo is available here: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/pan-african-flag-flies-from-black-lives-matter-plaza-news-photo/1221104924 What does the green red and black flag mean?Red: the blood that unites all people of Black African ancestry, and shed for liberation; Black: for the people whose existence as a nation, though not a nation-state, is affirmed by the existence of the flag; Green: the abundant and vibrant natural wealth of Africa, the Motherland.
What country's flag is red black and green?The Red, Black and Green flag represents the entire African nation (black people everywhere). It was voted to be the flag of Africa on August 12, 1920 by Marcus Garvey and the thousands of members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), at their conference in Brooklyn NY.
What is the red and green American flag?The red signifies the blood, while the green represents the skin tone and the wealth left behind by the ancestors of the African-American when they were forced into slavery. For many decades, the flag has become an identity to Harlem, linking it to modern arts and the diaspora.
What is the black white green and red flag?The flag of Palestine (Arabic: علم فلسطين) is a tricolor of three equal horizontal stripes (black, white, and green from top to bottom) overlaid by a red triangle issuing from the hoist. This flag is derived from the Pan-Arab colors and is used to represent the State of Palestine and the Palestinian people.
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