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The Black Patch Tobacco War (or the Great Tobacco strike) in southwestern Kentucky and northern Tennessee extended from 1904 to 1909. It was the longest and most violent conflict between the end of the Civil War and the civil rights struggles of the mid-1960s. [ 1 ]
Tracey Campbell, "The Politics of Despair: Power and Resistance in the Tobacco Wars" (1993) Suzanne Marshall, "Violence in the Black Patch of Kentucky and Tennessee" (1994) James O. Nall, "The Tobacco Night Riders of Kentucky and Tennessee, 1905-1909" (1939) Christopher Waldrep, "Night Riders: Defending Community in the Black Patch, 1890-1915 ...
It is only one step removed from civil war." [9] From 1907 through 1908, other Night Riders had committed increasingly destructive crimes in the Black Patch Tobacco Wars, especially in Kentucky and Tennessee counties to the east of here. They had raided and taken control of the county seats of Princeton, Hopkinsville, and Russellville, Kentucky ...
The Night Riders were involved in a series of raids that made up the Black Patch Tobacco Wars across Kentucky and Tennessee from 1904–1909, mainly destroying large tobacco companies' warehouses because the farmers believed their prices were unfair. [1]
In all about 100 blacks got off the steamer when it arrived in Tennessee.” (Ibid., March 11, 17, 24, 28, 1908; Madisonville Hustler, March 17, 1908) Shortly after their successful removal of the Birmingham blacks the Night Riders adopted the practice that seems to have been wide-spread in Kentucky during the first two decades of the twentieth ...
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On December 7, 1907, 250 masked Night Riders seized Hopkinsville's police station and cut off all outside contact. They pursued tobacco executives who bought tobacco from farmers who were not members of the Dark Tobacco District Planters' Protective Association and city officials who aided them.
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