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Carolyn Bryant Donham's accusations led to Till's kidnapping and lynching in 1955. In June, his family called for her arrest after an unserved warrant resurfaced.
A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose claim that 14-year-old Emmett Till whistled at her led to his lynching nearly 70 years ago, prosecutors said Tuesday.
In a federal lawsuit filed earlier this week, a family member of Emmett Till is demanding that Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks serve an arrest warrant from 1955 on Carolyn Bryant Donham for her ...
Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman at the center of Emmett Till’s death, has died at age 88. According to Mississippi Today and Megan LeBoeuf, chief investigator for the Calcasieu Parish ...
In 1955, Carolyn Bryant Donham (then just Carolyn Bryant), a 21-year-old white woman, accused Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy, of making an unwelcome advance at her. Those accusations led to ...
Now known as Carolyn Bryant Donham, Donham is still alive and is in her late 80s. It is unclear where she currently lives or if she has an attorney.
Still no justice for Emmett Till: On Carolyn Bryant Donham, accountability and who is seen as a wolf Carolyn Bryant Donham, who was not indicted, claims she's "more than a wolf whistle." But Till ...
The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner’s report shows… ...
Carolyn Bryant Donham died Tuesday while in hospice care in Westlake, La., reports say Digital News Writer, PEOPLE The White woman who accused Black teen Emmett Till of making sexual advances ...
In this 1955 file photo, Carolyn Bryant poses for a photo. A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman, Carolyn Donham, known as Carolyn Bryant, whose accusation set off the ...
The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at and accosting her in Mississippi in 1955 — causing his lynching, which galvanized a generation of activists to… ...