This set of flags thus represents the Afro-American population with all the complexities of its identity. The tradition of raising the Juneteenth Flag at the Dillaway Thomas House in the Roxbury Heritage Park on every June 19 continues to this day. The Mainlander Flag (Variant #2) is meant to represent the North American people of African origin, which is why it resembles the original Stars and Stripes the most, with seven red and six green stripes. Most recently it has popped up at Occupy protests held in the Pacific Northwest. The flag has a black eight-pointed star, surrounded with four gold "flashes of light", on purple field, all within a complex border composed of red, white, blue, green, gold and black segments. The United States Department of Defense issued a World War II 50th Anniversary Flag as the first of a new officially sanctioned set of commemorative flags designed to honor and commemorate the 50th anniversaries of modern American military campaigns and those who served in them. This modified United States flag with 32 stars spelling out the letters "ERA" was seen during some of the Equal Rights Amendment rallies and demonstrations held in the mid-1970s. The Earth Flag, often called the Earth Day Flag, was designed by John McConnell in 1970. The World Peace Association (WPA) was based in Jenkins, Minnesota. From 2002 to 2009, T-shirts decorated with the flag image could also be purchased from his website. The party was one of the first organizations in U.S. history to militantly struggle for ethnic minority and working class emancipation, and their agenda was the revolutionary establishment of real economic, social, and political equality across gender and color lines. Based on the standard U.S. flag, its stripes are black and red, the field is green, and the stars on the field are black. - White, Yellow, Red, Brown, and Black with the word Unity spelled from right to left. A flag similar to the Islander Flag, but with the stars changed to green (Variant #4) was first seen in Washington, D.C. at the inauguration of President Barack Obama in January 2009. In short, the flag stands for unity. The remaining group would became a target of diverse Red Squad activities of the Michigan State Police and the Detroit Police Department, effectively ending the protest movement. The idea of an all-white Stars and Stripes has been around since the 1960s and earlier.

Variants of this basic design continue to appear and can be seen both on the Internet and at LGBT demonstrations.

Each stripe represents one of the five different groups of the human race. Go over and knock on their door, introduce yourself, welcome them to the neighbourhood and ask them about the flag! The Republic of New Afrika Movement was created at the Black Government Conference in Detroit, Michigan, held in 1968, This group of Afro-American separatist wrote and signed a "Declaration of The dimensions of the original flag was 56" x 88" (142.2 x 223.5 cm), but a variety of sizes can now be seen on the Web and the flag flown at the Studio Museum seems closer to the default proportions of the US national flag than to the Hammons' original model. Since 2000, Baker has been promoting the re-introduction of his original design, which has sparked more interest in seven-striped flag as well, both designs still being in limited use.

To see a more complete collection of images without any detailed text of American Rainbow flags in one place (Click Here). The red represents the blood shed in the struggle for liberation. The imaginative protest movement then elected Robert F. Williams, a controversial human rights advocate, then living in exile in China, as the President, attorney Milton Henry (a follower of Malcolm X) as First Vice President; and Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, as Second Vice President. ", "Superimposed on the black stripe is a golden wreath of fig leaves. The flag has also been called at various times the Marcus Garvey flag, the Black Nationalist Flag, the African National Flag, the New Afrikan Liberation Flag, the African-American Flag, the Universal African flag, and the International African Flag. The motto "Freedom is Not Free." The Flag of Earth Movement had no political, cultural or geographical affiliations. While nothing else is currently known about this flag, its meaning is obviously similar to that of the All American Flags, which might have provided the inspiration to its designers. As a part of the promotion campaign for local hip-hop group named DaPhlayva, a symbol was made to express the group members' identity as the African-Americans from the South. Openly lesbian and gay members of the US military is subject to a "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, but President Barack Obama indicated during the 2008 presidential campaign, and also during his 2010 State of the Union Address, his desire to end this policy. Are they celebrating Halloween super early? Worn Souls. Five states and one district (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, New Hampshire, and District of Columbia) have legalized same-sex marriage. It's the American flag but instead of red white and blue, it's orange and black? And I'm not going over there...I think the reason she hasn't is because they are kinda weird-or maybe she's afraid they're terrorists.

The second flag shown (Variant #2) is an African-American flag which uses the colors introduce by Marcus Garvey, but uses them in a different order, putting the black stripe on top to emphasize the black races' importance. By replacing top seven stripes of the United States national flag with the Black Liberation flag pattern, Lee intended to represent "all African Americans regardless of their individual beliefs or political affiliations", and their "unique contributions and accomplishments toward the inventiveness, creativity, building, growth and stability of the United States of America". It would somehow be formed if these states and province would ever successfully secede from their respective federal governments. MorganC1980. Black stripes stand for their deaths and green ones for their youth, for most of them were young people. The Rainbow Flag was designed in 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a San Francisco artist, for the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade (now San Francisco Pride). The African American Unity Flag was designed by Vincent Paramore as part of the African American Unity Flag Association (AAUF) grant. He designed the "African-American Flag" in 1990 by re-coloring the US national flag in the Garvey colors. It is basically a case of two similar flags both attempting to mimic the colors of the rainbow, but with the important difference of an extra dark blue stripe added to the Italian Peace flags. MorganC1980. However it remains primarily a LGBT flag. Although they had been freed by the "Emancipation Proclamation," signed by President Abraham Lincoln almost two years earlier in 1863, it wasn't until Juneteenth that they learned of it.

anyone know what this means??

Nonbinary pride flag Image zoom Its original eight colors stood for sexuality, life, healing, sunlight, nature, magic (or art), serenity (or harmony) and spirit. These Italian-style peace flags are now being "localized" in countries other than Italy and the word PACE is being translated to local languages like English, German (FRIEDE) or Turkish (BARIS). Because of the Italian PACE flag´s similar appearance it has been confused by the uninformed with the American Gay Rights (LGBT) Rainbow flag. This Ecology flag was first made by the San Francisco based Paramount Flag Company in 1967. He predicted the worldwide economic collapse of the early 21st Century and hoped it would be the beginning of humanity acting as one race, one people, one planet. The company name used the hip-hop style spelling of words "New South", but was also interpreted as "N-U-South", a same-style spelling of the words "In You, South", both interpretations expressing the wish to help creating a new, unified Southern identity, the symbol of which could be this flag. Besides the two "national flags" variants, there are also two variant Cascadian National Party flags. They continue to sponsor protest marches, long walks, and numerous conferences supporting both Canadian and American Native American interest. The symbol is a combination of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D," standing for "nuclear disarmament". The Korean War, often called the "Forgotten War" was the first "police action" of what would become known as "The Cold War" between the Western democracies and the Soviet Union.

Today, it should be noted, flying a Gay Pride flag openly, like many similar flags, only indicates political support for gays who shouldn't be persecuted for their beliefs in a free society, and doesn't mean that those flying are necessarily gay themselves. He claims it occurred to him in a dream. This practice has spread to Canada and the Rainbow PEACE Flag is now used there. Although the home page, displaying only the company logo, actually remained until early 2009, NuSouth probably did not outlive the year 2003, its logo eventually falling out of use with the changes of fashion. By this it is meant that it is the manner in which they are used that determines what they are. The sword represents the strength and authority exhibited by a black culture that made many contributions to the world in mathematics, art, medicine, and physical science, heralding the contributions that black Americans would make in these and other fields.". Other symbols have been added to the rainbow flag. An interesting migration occurred with the Rainbow PEACE Flag. It restored basic human rights to a group of Americans, who never should have been denied them in the first place. Their somewhat unusual social protest resulted eventually in the FBI of the 1960s naming them a seditious group. Other versions have the canton background done in blue or black. Its growing popularity acknowledges this period in our history, one that shaped and continues to influence our society today. The United States Department of Defense has added a Korean War Anniversary Flag to their officially sanctioned set of commemorative flags (Similar commemorative flags were issued for World War II and the Vietnam War), both to honor and commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Korean War and those who served in it. This image was first conceived and created by Fuller in 1938 by collapsing the sphere of the Earth onto a flat surface of the ocean and land masses, without splitting or exaggerating their relative sizes. It also memorializes black heroes and heroines known and unknown. The black color represents the Black race, the green color represents the natural resources of Africa from where the Black race comes from. The olive green (or olive drab) field variant has used in Provincetown, Rhode Island, known as the United States East Coast's gay Mecca.

The "Flag of Earth" was designed by an Illinois farmer named James Cadle shortly after the first manned landing on the moon in 1969.

I can't seem to find anything when I google. Founded in 1968, AIM calling itself the "Trail of Broken Treaties," began championing the cause of Indian unity. This design was first adopted in 1920 as the official banner of the African Race at a meeting of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA) held in New York City. The Panthers practiced what they called "self-defense" for the minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs. Neither of them is really meant to completely replace the six-striped flag: "The idea of the rainbow is what counts", Baker himself said.