Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon

Описание: On August 1920,102 years ago Marcus Garvey created The Pan-African/Black Liberation flag.

Marcus Garvey was the father of the black nationalist and pan african movements, activist & founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL)

Garvey was a Jamaican political activist, journalist, and speaker, as well as the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA). With the help of friends and fellow activists, he established the organization to promote anti-colonialism and Black nationalism.

The #PanAfrican flag was created by UNIA members, including Garvey, in direct response to the anti-Black folk song "Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon." Its creators intended for the flag to act as a unifying symbol for Black people, and to legitimize them as a unified nation after hundreds of years of slavery and disenfranchisement.

In the 1960s, the Pan-African flag became a symbol for the Black Liberation movement, an African nationalist symbol for the worldwide liberation of people of African origin, as an emblem of Black pride, the flag became used by activist groups as a unifier and an emblem of power. The flag is a ubiquitous symbol. Black people around the world would be able to claim an identity in their own right under the flag. It can be seen during civil rights rallies; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day parades; and at other events. The flag was notably used during protests in response to the police killing of Michael Brown in 2014.

Today, variations of the flag can and have been used in various countries and territories in Africa and the Americas to represent Pan-Africanist ideology.

As this flag continues to be a template for flags across Africa, ICAEW is proud to raise the flag!


the meaning of the colors of the flag,

Red: The blood that unites all people of Black African ancestry, and shed for liberation
Black: Black people whose existence as a nation, though not a nation-state, is affirmed by the flag
Green: The abundant natural wealth of Africa

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