The story
Liberia Flag Day in Monrovia/Multi-county
National Flag Day is a Liberian public holiday on August 24 commemorating the adoption of the national flag in 1847, designed by a committee of women led by Susannah Lewis. The flag's eleven stripes represent the Declaration of Independence's signatories, and the holiday, established by legislative act in 1915, includes formal flag-raising ceremonies at schools and government buildings.
Susannah Lewis led a committee of Liberian women who designed and produced the national flag adopted alongside the country's 1847 declaration of independence, an origin story commemorated each year on August 24 through National Flag Day, a public holiday established by an Act of the National Legislature approved on October 25, 1915.