were shot in 1946 so it is a post war situation and these individuals were shot by a firing squad in lonrho georgia soon after the governor's election in georgia and the funeral director was the most prominent man in the town and he opens the book for me because he shows the example of the model of the book in the weeks before the lynching he was trying to register voters in lonrho because was the first election they would be allowed to vote for a number of years and she gets involved in the case after the fact and has the community come to his funeral home and so the rest of his life he was consuming the people in the community that he believed committed a crime even though no one was ever convicted so i told the story of him because he also shows in terms of the story of the civil rights movement that funeral directors were often registering voters and would often protect the family after the fact of the crime and this became an african-american communities one of the reasons we were talking about the loyalty because the funeral director often played so many rules of the community's -- an