The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at and accosting her — which caused his 1955 lynching in Mississippi and galvanized a generation of activists to rise up in the Civil Rights Movement — has died at 88.
JACKSON, Miss. —
Till's mother, Mamie Till Mobley, insisted on an open-casket funeral in their hometown of Chicago so the world could see her 14-year-old son's mutilated body, which was pulled from a river in Mississippi. Jet magazine published photos. When Till disappeared in Mississippi, Ollie Gordon — one of Till's cousins — was 7 years old and living in the Chicago home with Till's mother and family. Gordon told The Associated Press on Thursday that in the days following when he went missing, the home was full of fear, because people knew there was a strong likelihood he had been killed."She was never tried in the court of man," Gordon said.
Days later, Parker saw Till be kidnapped in the dark of night from their uncle's home in Mississippi, where the teenagers were staying. Parker said Thursday that his heart goes out to Donham. Tyson said in 2022 that he decided to make the memoir public after some of Till's relatives and other people doing research at the Leflore County, Mississippi, courthouse in June 2022 found anthat was issued for "Mrs. Roy Bryant" in 1955 but never served.
This undated photo shows Emmett Louis Till, who was kidnapped, tortured and killed in the Mississippi Delta in August 1955. Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched died Tuesday night in hospice care in Louisiana. She was 88.
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