Freedom Just Around the Corner: Skull and Crossbones

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February 12, 2015

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‘Skull and Crossbones’ KKK postal cancel, Union Mills, Pennsylvania, c. 1870

The skull and crossbones was one of the earliest symbols adopted by the Ku Klux Klan.

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