Black Flag

Black Flag or black flag may refer to:

in anarchism:

  • Black Flag (newspaper), a publication in Britain
  • Czarny Sztandar, an organisation in Russia
  • An element of anarchist symbolism

in other uses:

  • Black Flag, Western Australia
  • Black Flag (insecticide), a brand of pesticide
  • Black Flag (band), a music group
  • Black Flag Army, a militia in Vietnam
  • False flag, a type of warfare
  • Pan-African flag, a trans-national unity symbol
  • Ferraria crispa, a plant
  • A type of racing flag
  • A signal to parley
  • One of various flags that are primarily black: list of black flags


Famous quotes containing the words black and/or flag:

    “We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle- class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.”
    —Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)

    “Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then,
    Bowed with her fourscore years and ten;

    Bravest of all in Frederick town,
    She took up the flag the men hauled down;”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)