were also lynched for it, in their world war i uniforms, because it was considered an affront to southern gentryand affront to white supremacy. >> i am trained to look at images to understand them, to decode them, and i cannot look at these pictures. brian lamb: where did you discover that, i gather they were southerners, that would lynch or burn these people that key back from world war i just because they were black? thomas allen harris: will that was something that has been in the history books. i had read about that, i think as early as taking black history courses at harvard, and that was the idea at the height of jim crow, so the idea that self empowered african-american male with an army uniform, who was a citizen, could somehow change the status quo, and was really threatening to particularly southerners, but lynching happened all over the country, and there is a huge amount of photographs that were done that documented the lynchings, and they were also sent in the mail without any kind of covers or cards, people also cut hair, and so those images were very prevalent at one point, and th