BREAKING: 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. carolynbryant emmetttill kprc2 click2hou
FILE - This 1955 file photo shows Carolyn Bryant. A relative of Emmett Till filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, to compel the current Leflore County sheriff, Ricky Banks, to serve an arrest warrant on Bryant in the kidnapping that led to the brutal 1955 lynching of the Emmett Louis Till, a Black teenager, in the Mississippi Delta. She has since remarried and is named Carolyn Bryant Donham.
Till traveled from Chicago to visit relatives in Mississippi in August 1955. Donham — then named Carolyn Bryant — accused him of making improper advances on her at a grocery store in the small community of Money. The Rev. Wheeler Parker, a cousin of Till who was there, has said 14-year-old Till whistled at the woman, an act that flew in the face of Mississippi’s racist social codes of the era.
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