Emmett Till's accuser, in an unpublished memoir, denies wanting him killed
In the manuscript, Carolyn Bryant Donham insists she didn't know what would happen to 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955.
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In the manuscript, Carolyn Bryant Donham insists she didn't know what would happen to 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi's top legal official has no plan to prosecute the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, an aide said Fr...
In an unpublished memoir obtained by The Associated Press, Carolyn Bryant Donham says she was unaware of what would happen to the 14-year-old Till, who lived in Chicago and was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he was abducted, killed and tossed in a river.
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