nightrider

nightrider
nightriding, n.
/nuyt"ruy'deuhr/, n.
one of a band of mounted men, esp. in the southern U.S. during Reconstruction, who committed nocturnal acts of violence and intimidation against blacks and black sympathizers.
[1875-80; NIGHT + RIDER]

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