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Black History Month (U.S.)

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Description of the flag

A GETTY IMAGES photo from https://kareem.substack.com flag photo was taken by its photographer: Valerie Macon. Image also seen at: https://en.as.com/latest_news/neither-martin-luther-king-jr-nor-malcolm-x-this-is-the-father-of-black-history-month-n/

Flags heralding some Black-rights advocate flying outside some U.S. museum celebrating "Black History Month" [Feb. 2025] somewhere in the U.S., (possibly Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mass.). From right-to-left, flag portraits of: Harriet Tubman, Angela Davis, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcom X.

Image located by William Garrison, 12 April 2025.
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Direct image links are:
https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images
https://img.asmedia.epimg.net/resizer

This photo has been used as an illustration in several webpages about African American issues. At least one of them was posted in January 2021, evidencing that this photo was not taken in March 2025: https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/mundo/2021

So, these flags, even though they are artistically different, seem to have been prepared simultaneously (see the identical label on the edge of the lower fly). And while the photo shows more or less clearly only four, there’s at least two more, obscured but visible at the lower left side of the photo; the reverse of all these is very likely see-through.

These four are:

* Harriet Tubman
This squarish flag shows only a colorized version of a famous 1895 photo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harriet_Tubman_1895.jpg] of Harriet Tubman - not my favorite, especially as it's so ubiquitous while there others to pick from, arguably more visually impactful, such as
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harriet-tubman-1860s-photo.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harriet_Tubman_late_in_life.jpg

* Angela Davis
A more oblong flag showing a photo Angela Davis taken likely in the early 1970s, with several layers of op art effects: Facing the hoist, head and shoulders, in sepia-on-white monochrome with a rubberstamp clone pattern effect, the contour (ineptly) cut and pasted on a black background.

* Martin Luther King, Jr.
A squarish flag with an iconic photo of MLK, in full color on green background, overlaid with a 'word cloud" set in typeface Impact, in several sizes, all lower case, with partial transparency. (Not unlike this: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/JTTtR one, with the same base photo). This flag is hoisted on a green staff, unlike the others, which are black.

* Malcom X
Seems to be a squarish flag with, on dark grey background, an iconic https://images.fineartamerica.com 1964 photo centered on it: Malcom X with raised arm, pointing finger, mouth in the "f" position, speaking to a microphone. This flag design archived here.

António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 July 2025