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White caps

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the members of a secret organization in various of the United States, who attempt to drive away or reform obnoxious persons by lynch-law methods. They appear masked in white. Their actions resembled those of the Ku Klux Klan in some ways but they were not formally affiliated with the Klan, and their victims were often not black.

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There were five corps, each with a color of its own; there were white caps, blue caps, and red, yellow, and green ones.
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Their women all in simple black, with white caps and shawls of faded tints folded triangularly on the back, strolled lightly by their side.
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The first three criminals were taken to the posts, dressed in long white tunics, with white caps drawn over their faces, so that they could not see the rifles pointed at them.
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