Nigger knocker

She knew “who was going with who and when they were doing it and what night of the week they were doing it.” And when the detectives were using the “burrhead sticks” or “nigger knockers” on some poor blacks, she would have to leave […]

So Harry runs to open up the deadlock. Now Joey got the nigger knocker wrapped around his hand real tight, dig. I know he about to correct me on some honky rules.

The nigger knocker: The nigger knocker was a cut-down-to-size nightstick that measured about ten inches in length. It had been sanded down to create a fine natural wood appearance. The beauty of choosing the nigger knocker was that the victim didn't know when he was going to be hit. Normally impact did not come on the same day as the choice;[…]

Curiously, the militant black leaders with whom I have discussed "nigger-knocking" are remarkably unconcerned. One mentions several hundred black bodies a year littering the Southern roads, and the black leaders reply: “Hell, we lose that many each year just in Newark because of narcotics or bad housing." This is a way of saying that the real victims of "nigger-knocking" are the "nigger-knockers." How sad, how true.

Informants of varying reliability furnished dozens of potential suspects [for the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing] [...] Some specialized in booby traps (for protecting arms caches). Others were "nigger-knockers," who assaulted blacks.

if I had to lay it at anyone's feet, I'd start with the White League, the Knights of the White Camellia, the Saturday-night nigger-knockers, and all the people who did everything in their power to keep their fellow human beings poor and uneducated and at one another's throats so they would remain a source of cheap labor.

Tyrone rang once more and I banged, banged, banged as if trying to strike right through the door. [...] We crouched in the dirt against the side of his house. He snatched open the door, stepped outside and looked left and right, but not down. [...] When he went back inside we waited for him to sit before we did it again. Once more he came outside and cursed his phantom nigger knockers.