Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman whose accusation led to the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, has died, Megan LeBoeuf, the chief investigator with the Calcasieu Parish coroner’s office confirmed…
Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman whose accusation led to the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, has died, Megan LeBoeuf, the chief investigator with the Calcasieu Parish coroner’s office confirmed to CNN.
Donham, 88, died on April 25 in Westlake, Louisiana, a fact of death letter from the coroner’s office obtained by CNN says.FILE- In this 1955 file photo, Carolyn Bryant poses for a photo.
FILE - This undated photo shows Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old black Chicago boy, who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in 1955 after he allegedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. The federal government has reopened its investigation into the slaying of Till, the black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago. FiLE - In this Sept. 22.
FILE - In this Sept. 23, 1955, file photo, J.W. Milam, left, his wife, second left, Roy Bryant, far right, and his wife, Carolyn Bryant, sit together in a courtroom in Sumner, Miss. Bryant and his half-brother Milam were charged with murder but acquitted in the kidnap-torture slaying of 14-year-old black teen Emmett Till in 1955 after he allegedly whistled at Carolyn Bryant. The men later confessed in a magazine interview but weren’t retried; both are now dead.
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