Originally introduced in 1920 by The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) to represent thier organization, the Pan-African or Afro-American flag has come to represent tremendously more over the decades, including general use in the black nationalist and Black Liberation movements of the mid-20th century, as as a general symbol of black pride all over the world.
It has inspired several other flags, including the African-American flag (1990), which I also included in this post.
Journalist Charles Mowbray White has stated that the creator of the flag proposed the color scheme to represent: "red because of sympathy for the 'Reds of the world', and the Green their sympathy for the Irish in their fight for freedom, and the Black [for] the Negro."
According to the UNIA more recently, the colors of the flag represent:
Red: the blood that unites all people of Black African ancestry, and the blood shed for liberation
Black: black people whose existence as a nation, though not a nation-state, is affirmed by the existence of the flag
Green: the abundant natural wealth in Africa.
#Juneteenth #vexillology #grownostr #TIL 
