This photograph shows five African American men who have been lynched, North Carolina, 6 August 1906. Nease and John Gillespie, Jack Dillingham, Henry Lee and George Irwin are the victims of a brutal era where African Americans were frequently unprotected by the law, murdered by non Africans and denied justice by the American criminal justice system.         The Lynching of Nease and John Gillespie, Jack Dillingham, Henry Lee and George Irwin