The RED, BLACK and GREEN Flag was unveiled to the world by the Honourable Marcus Mosiah Garvey and the members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, of the World at its first international convention on 13 August 1920. The UNIA-ACL knew that Africans at home and abroad needed there own flag as other flags around the world could not represent the collective of African people.
The use of Red, Black and Green as colours symbolizing African nationhood was first “adopted by the UNIA-ACL as part of the 1920 Declaration of Rights as the official colours 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 United States especially, the lack of an African symbol of nationhood seems to have been a cause for crude derision on the part of whites and a source of sensitivity on the part of Afro-Americans.
Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche – the only black man to have died on the Titanic
Give thanks for the full story of the red black and green flag founded by the UNIA and adopted by the pan African Congress. .