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Black Nationalism is the belief of which African Americans are separated from the white society, culturally, politically, and economically. This movement was predominant in the 1960’s and 1970’s, but can be traced back to the 1920’s, during Garvey and the UNIA. The UNIA or Universal Improvement Association is an organization that wanted blacks to have their own identity. African Americans were tired of being inferior to Whites and believed that they were more superior than the Whites. The colors on the Black Nationalist flag are, red for what the African Americans went through in the past, green for vegetation and mineral richness, and black for the African descendants themselves. In the novel, //Their Eyes Were Watching God//, the whites were rarely involved in the book and seemed to live a great distance away.