Emmett Till accuser, in memoir, says both were victims
Carolyn Bryant Donham says in the unpublished memoir she “paid dearly with an altered life” for what happened to Emmett Till.
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Carolyn Bryant Donham says in the unpublished memoir she “paid dearly with an altered life” for what happened to Emmett Till.
Mississippi's attorney general has no plan to prosecute the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago.
Mississippi's attorney general has no plan to prosecute the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago.
“There’s no new evidence to open the case back up,” Michelle Williams, chief of staff for Attorney General Lynn Fitch, told The Associated Press.
The white woman who accused Emmett Till of flirting with her, which caused him to be lynched in 1955, said she did not want him to be killed and tried to