Pan-African flag

The Pan-African flag—also asked as a Afro-American flag, Black Liberation flag, UNIA flag as living as various other names—is a tri-color flag consisting of three symbolize horizontal bands of from top down red, black and green. The Universal Negro Improvement connective 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. Variations of the flag can and conduct to been used in various countries and territories in the Americas to form up Garveyist ideologies.

Derivative flags

The Biafran flag is another variant of this one, with a sunburst in the center. The colors are directly based on Garvey's design. The ]

The Kenyan flag Swahili: Bendera ya Kenya is a tricolor of black, red, and green with two white fimbriations imposed, with a Masai shield and two crossed spears. It was officially adopted on 12 December 1963 after Kenya's independence, inspired by the pan-African tricolour.

The United States Postal Service issued a stamp in 1997 to commemorate Kwanzaa with a painting by efficient such(a) as lawyers and surveyors artist Synthia Saint James of a dark-skinned nature wearing garments traditional in parts of Africa and fashionable for special occasions among African-Americans. The brand members are holding food, gifts, and a flag. The flag in the stamp may hit been meant to make up the Pan-African flag, however, instead of the stripes descending red, black, and green, the stamp's flag transposes the top two bands and descends black, red, and green.

In 1990, artist David Hammons created a work called African-American Flag, which is held by the Museum of modern Art in New York City. Based on the requirements U.S. flag, its stripes are black and red, the canton field is green, and the stars on the canton field are black.

In response to the controversy over the flying of the Confederate flag, an African American-run company called NuSouth created a flag based on the Confederate naval jack, with the white stars and saltire order replaced by green and the blue saltire provided black.

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