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Funeral services were held Monday for the Mississippi prosecutor who worked on one of the renewed investigations into the 1955 lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till.

A Mississippi prosecutor who worked on one of the renewed investigations into the 1955 killing of Black teenager Emmett Till has died

Funeral services were held Monday for the Mississippi prosecutor who worked on one of the renewed investigations into the 1955 lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till.

GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) -- Funeral services were held Monday for the Mississippi prosecutor who worked on one of the renewed investigations into the 1955

Carolyn Bryant Donham, 88, can be seen at her Kentucky home for the first time in two decades, in exclusive DailyMail.com photos. Her accusations in 1955 resulted in 14-year-old Emmett Tills lynching.

In 1955, J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant got away with murdering Emmett Till when an all-white jury acquitted them. But tragedy soon followed.