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The Night Riders was the name given by the press to the militant, terrorist faction of tobacco farmers during a popular resistance to the monopolistic practices of the American Tobacco Company (ATC) of James B. Duke. On September 24, 1904, the tobacco planters of western Kentucky and the neighboring counties of West Tennessee formed the Dark ...
Sep 23, 2024 · Night rider violence escalated into 1909. The riders staged spectacular nighttime raids, destroyed cotton in the fields, killed livestock, burned barns and warehouses filled with cotton, dynamited farm machinery, and assaulted buyers. As a way of restraining the night riders, on September 27, 1908, during an emergency meeting of the Farmers ...
In the year 1908, more than 35,000 farmers in more than 30 counties did not plant tobacco, and an entire year's worth of crop was lost. As a result, the ATC agreed to the farmers' demands in November 1908. [9] The Night Riders began to attack and terrorize individual farms and crops if the farmers did not support the Association. [6]
Mar 1, 2018 · Nightriding’s archive reveals a matrix of black Americans’ suffering. Some consequences were physical—the result of whippings or beatings. Others were economic—linked to the loss of ...
Night Doctors. Night Doctors (also known as Night Riders, Night Witches, Ku Klux Doctors and Student Doctors) are bogeymen of African American folklore, resulting from some factual basis. The term Night Doctor is often broadly used, referring to doctors who would illegally or unethically find means of procuring African American corpses for ...
The night riders fired guns into homes, shattered windows, and sometimes burned or dynamited houses and outbuildings. The mob also burned the county’s Black churches to the ground. The violence escalated after Mae Crow died on September 23 and only got worse after the October hangings. The message was clear to Black residents: leave Forsyth ...
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dubbed “a red-hot bill against night riding.”3 He had an economic incen- tive to take on nightriders, being an owner of the sort of cotton farm that had become one of the targets of such violence.4 Upon its introduction, House Bill 80 quickly made its way through the legislative process and
