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The red, black and green flag was created by the members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League at their convention held in Madison Square Garden on August 13, 1920.
The three colors represent:
- red: the noble blood that unites all people of African ancestry;
- black: black people whose dignity is upheld by the existence of the flag; and
- green: the abundant natural wealth of the Motherland, Africa.
The flag was created by the members of the UNIA in response to a racist song written in 1900 entitled "The Only Race without a Flag is the Coon"; the song was written by Will A. Heelan and J. Fred Helf and popular in the U.S. and Britain.
The flag later became a black nationalist symbol for the liberation African people everywhere. Its colors can be seen in the flags of a number of African nations.
See also
External links
- The UNIA-ACL official website
- "The Only Race without a Flag is the Coon":
- Sheet music from a Johns Hopkins University website
- Sheet music from the American Memory website of the Library of Congress