Pan-African flag
The Pan-African flag (also known as the Afro-American flag, Black Liberation flag, UNIA flag, and various other names) is a tri-color flag consisting of three equal horizontal bands of (from top down) red, black, and green. 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. Variations of the flag can and have been used in various countries and territories in the Americas to represent Garveyist ideologies.
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| Use | Ethnic flag Africans and their Afro Caribbean/American counterparts. |
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| Adopted | 13 August 1920 |
| Design | A horizontal triband of red, black, and green. |
| Designed by | Marcus Garvey |
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The flag was created due to racism against African Americans in 1920 with help of Marcus Garvey.
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