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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 ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
In 1907 and 1908, a vigilante group known as The Night Riders terrorized the "Black Patch" 30-county region of western Kentucky and Tennessee, where Dark Fired Tobacco was produced. The Planters Protective Association of Kentucky and Tennessee had organized to gain more power as growers against the James B. Duke tobacco conglomerate ( American ...
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A vigilante force called the Night Riders was formed to combat the Duke monopoly and terrorized those who cooperated with the tobacco company by destroying crops, burning warehouses, and even physical intimidation. On December 1, 1906, the Night Riders raided Princeton and burned the largest tobacco factories in the world.