Carolyn Bryant Donham, whose false accusations against Black teenager Emmett Till led to his lynching in Mississippi in 1955, has died at 88.
JACKSON, Miss. — 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 rise up in the Civil Rights Movement — has died at 88.died in hospice care Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday in the Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office.
Evidence indicates a woman identified Till to Donham’s then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, who killed the teenager. An all-white jury acquitted the two white men in the killing, but the men later confessed in an interview with Look magazine. Days later, Parker saw men kidnap Till 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 had placed the manuscript in an archive at the University of North Carolina with the agreement that it not be made public for decades, though he said he gave it to the FBI during an investigation the agency concluded in 2021. A campus spokesperson said Thursday that the university returned Tyson’s materials to him in 2022 because they did not agree on open access to the information.
“It has comforted America to see this as merely a story of monsters, her among them,“ Tyson said. ”What this narrative keeps us from seeing is the monstrous social order that cared nothing for the life of Emmett Till nor thousands more like him. Neither the federal government nor the government of Mississippi did anything to prevent or punish this murder. Condemning what Donham did is easier than confronting what America was — and is.
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