World's largest Black motorcycle club honors legacy of Buffalo Soldiers military regiments
On a sunny day in June, Vanessa Robertson mounted her Can-Am Spyder ST limited and pulled into a TA truck stop on West South Boulevard in Montgomery flashing her colors: a starched long-sleeved yellow shirt and black leather vest adorned with silver butterfly clips at the front and a centerman patch on its back.
On the Southern Bypass, she waited for her soldiers to arrive. Not the members of a military unit, but a motorcycle club.
Robertson, who's known as "Butterfly" to her fellow riders, doesn't fit the typical image of a biker who lives in American popular culture. She's a Black woman with raven colored sisterlocks that fall below her waist and a smooth, even-toned voice built on more than three decades of public-school service.
A retired teacher and principal, Robertson now serves as president of the Montgomery chapter of the National Association of Buffalo Soldiers and Troopers Motorcycle Club — the world's largest Black motorcycle organization.
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