Historically Black Clothing® 0001 Black Heritage Flag T-Shirt
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Historically Black Clothing® 0001 Black Heritage Flag T-Shirt

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The Black American Heritage Flag (also known as the African American Heritage Flag) is an ethnic flag that represents the culture and history of African-American people. Each color and symbol on the flag has a significant meaning that was developed to instill pride in Black Americans, and provide them with a symbol of hope for the future in the midst of their struggle for Civil Rights.

History[edit]

Melvin Charles & Gleason T. Jackson holding the flag outside of the Union County Courthouse in Elizabeth, NJ (1967)

The flag was created in 1967 by Melvin Charles and Gleason T. Jackson. The idea to create the flag came about during the civil rights era[1] when Charles realized that every other group of people had a flag at parades except Black Americans. He saw how connected they were to their national flags, but didn't feel the same connection towards the American flag due to the negative historical and political implication that the American flag held in the minds of the Black American people.[