Read the passage below and answer the question.
If a white girl reported that a colored man had made improper advances to her-even if the charge were
unsupported and based on nothing more than a neurotic imagination-a white-sheeted band might spirit the
Negro off to the woods and teach him a lesson" with tar and feathers or with the whip.
In the above excerpt from Only Yesterday, An Informal History of the 1920's, Chapter 3 "The Big Red Scare," which
the following does the phrase "a white-sheeted band" refer to?
the K.K.K.
the police
the White Citizens Council
boycotters
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