Who are the night riders

The Night Riders, participants in the Black Patch Tobacco Wars.

Explanation:

The Night Riders, participants in the Black Patch Tobacco Wars. A member of a secret band who ride masked at night doing acts of violence for the purpose of punishing or terrorizing

The Night Riders were a group of ruthless, masked armed men, riding horseback going from town to town burning wagons of cotton and intimadating the farmers of the plantations not to market cotton unless they received 15 cents per pound through the Farmers Union Warehouse