Pinback button of the Pan-African flag, after 1955, AFL-CIO, USA
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Round pin-back button owned by activist and National Black Anti-War and Anti-Draft Union local head Jan Bailey, and featuring a red, black, and green stripes.
The Pan-African flag—also known as the UNIA flag, Afro-American flag, Black Liberation flag, and various other names—was originally adopted by the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) on August 13, 1920. UNIA-ACL founder Marcus Garvey had proposed the tri-color design consisting of three equal horizontal bands of (from top down) red, black and green. The flag later became a Black Nationalist symbol for the worldwide liberation of Black people and Black pride, and was popular during the Black Liberation movement of the 1960s.
Pinback button of the Pan-African flag, after 1955, AFL-CIO, USA is available in the public domain via Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication .
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture | Source: Smithsonian Learning Lab
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