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The club is the largest in the Detroit area, with over one hundred members, and chapters in Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee, Their insignia is a winged skeleton wearing a motorcycle cap and leather jacket, and their colors are black and silver. The club's motto is "Highwaymen forever, forever Highwaymen" ("H.F.F.H."). James Blake Miller, the "Marlboro Marine", is a member of the Kentucky Highwaymen, many of whom, like Miller, are veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. The Highwaymen are banned from the Detroit Federation of Motorcycle Clubs, which was created by the president of the Detroit Outlaws Motorcycle Club in the 1970s to resolve motorcycle gang turf wars. In 1955, the Highwaymen were actually listed as an American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) sanctioned club, a form of mainstream respectability which outlaw motorcycle clubs would, over the course of the 1950s and 1960s, come to reject as the very definition of 'outlaw' and 'one-percenter,' just as much as the AMA rejected outlaw clubs from their midst. |
