White woman whose claim caused Emmett Till murder has died
The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at and accosting her in Mississippi in 1955 — causing his lynching, which galvanised a generation of activists to rise up in the Civil Rights Movement — has died at 88.
Carolyn Bryant Donham died in hospice care on Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed on Thursday in the Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office.
After being accused of wolf-whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, 14-year-old African-American boy Emmett Till was kidnapped, murdered and mutilated on August 28, 1955. (AP)
Her death marks the last chance for anyone to be held accountable for the kidnapping and murder that shocked the world.
Till's mother, Mamie Till Mobley, insisted on an open-casket funeral in ...