This photograph was purchased with others identified as scenes from Arkansas by an Arkansas collector.

The smug faces and bold postures of the onlookers as well as the The corpses of five African American males, Nease Gillepsie, John Gillepsie, “Jack” Dillingham, Henry Lee, and George Irwin. August 6, 1906. Salisbury, North Carolina.ment of the victim’s hat typifies the mocking attitude, nonchalance, and superiority assumed by lynch mobs.