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[bellus-spiritus]

On this day August 13, 1920 The RED, BLACK & GREEN Flag was unveiled to the world by the Honorable #MarcusGarvey & the members of the #UniversalNegroImprovementAssociation & #AfricanCommunitiesLeague of the World at it's first international convention. The #UNIA-ACL knew that Africans at home & abroad needed their own flag as other flags around the world could not represent the collective of African people. The colors symbolizing African nationhood was first adopted as part of the 1920 Declaration of Rights as the official colors of the #African race. The question of a flag for the race was not as trivial as might have appeared on the surface, for in the US especially, the lack of an African symbol of nationhood seems to have been cause for crude derision on the part of whites & a source of sensitivity on the part of #AfroAmericans. The race catechism Garveyites used explained the significance of the red, black & green as for the "color of the blood which men must shed for their redemption & liberty", black for "the color of the noble & distinguished race to which we belong," & green for "the luxuriant vegetation of our Motherland. But the Flag originates with the #Moors, from the Al Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad, a #Sudanese mystic & leader who fought against the British Armies to achieve independence. #DuséMohamedAli who was born in Egypt shared a Sudanese heritage from his mother & was the one who influenced both Marcus Garvey & #NobleDrewAli through his publications of “African Times and Orient Review.” And #EdwardBlyden, 1832 - 1912, who ran for President of Liberia 1885, can be credited as being an originator of #PanAfricanism before Garvey. Believing that #Zionism was a model for what he called #Ethiopianism, and that African Americans could return to #Africa & redeem it. He believed political independence to be a prerequisite for economic independence & argued that Africans must counter the neo-colonial policies of former colonial powers. #InternationalAfricanFlag #TheAfricanFlag #PanAfricanFlag #LiberationFlag #BlackFlag #AfricanAmericanFlag #AfroAmericanFlag #RBG etc. The colors represents all peoples of the #AfricanDiaspora regardless of land of birth. https://www.instagram.com/p/B1Hv8ukH66s/?igshid=ui6u3ue9x71o

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#HappyBirthday#MarcusMosiahGarvey, Jr. (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a proponent of #blacknationalism in#Jamaica and especially the #UnitedStates. He was a leader of a mass movement called#PanAfricanism and he founded the#UniversalNegroImprovementAssociation and#AfricanCommunitiesLeague (UNIA-ACL). He also founded the #BlackStarLine, a shipping and passenger line which promoted the return of the#Africandiaspora to their ancestral lands. The#PanAfricanflag also known as the #UNIAflag,#AfroAmericanflag and #BlackLiberationFlag 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 Africa and the Americas to represent Pan-Africanist ideologies. Several Pan-African organizations and movements have often employed the emblematic tri-color scheme in various contexts.