American Flag Association

The formal organization of the AFA was completed at a mass meeting of all the state-based Flag Committees, held at New York City Hall, February 18, 1898.

[3] It aimed at the fostering of public sentiment in favor of honoring the U.S. flag, and preserving it from desecration.

It also sought to coordinate the efforts of all the Flag Committees and its other members, to enable all to cooperate in the common cause.

But the first successful work of obtaining legislation was done by the AFA and by the Flag Committees of which it was composed, and the Association has secured legislation to that end, in Maine (1899), New Hampshire (1899), Vermont (1898), Massachusetts (1899), Rhode Island (1903), Connecticut (1899), New York (1905), New Jersey (1904), Pennsylvania (1897), Delaware (1903), Maryland (1902), Ohio (1902), Michigan (1901), Indiana (1901), Illinois (1899), Wisconsin (1901), Minnesota (1899), South Dakota (1901), North Dakota (1901), Montana (1905), Wyoming (1905), Idaho (1905), Iowa (1900), Missouri (1903), Kansas (1905), Nebraska (1903), Colorado (1901), Utah (1903), Arizona (1899), California (1899), Oregon (1901), Washington (1904), Porto Rico (1904), and Nevada (1907).

[5] The United States Flag Foundation (USFF) was incorporated in Washington, D.C. on December 31, 1942,[5] and took over much of the work that the AFA and USFA had been doing.