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Carolyn Bryant Donham's unpublished memoir represents the first time the woman at the center of Emmett Till's lynching has spoken openly about the case.

In Greenwood, Miss., a 20-man grand jury last week declined to indict Roy Bryant and John W. Milam for the admitted kidnaping of Emmett Till,…

This year marks nearly seven decades since the 14-year-old boy from the South Side was killed in Mississippi. Here’s a look at how the Sun-Times covered his death in 1955, including Mamie Till Bradley’s decision to show the world the brutality he endured at the hands of white supremacists.

Carolyn Bryant Donham, 88, died this week in Louisiana

The white woman at the center of the Emmett Till saga, Carolyn Bryant Donham, has died. Megan LeBoeuf, chief investigator for the Calcasieu Parish coroner’s office, confirmed Donham’s death. The 88-year-old was suffering from cancer and was receiving end-of-life hospice care. Devery Anderson, the author of “Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and […]

The 88-year-old was suffering from cancer and was receiving end-of-life hospice care.

The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died.

In 1955, Emmett Till was lynched by two white men after being accused of whistling and “grabbing” a white woman. Professor Timothy Tyson and a group mobilized by Till’s family found new evidence for the Department of Justice to try to indict Carolyn Bryant Bonham for the kidnapping of Till.

It’s amazing to me at times just how deep white privilege runs in America—even when it comes to clear violations of the law and justice.

A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the White woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago.