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Apr 27, 2023 · Carolyn Bryant Donham Dies at 88; Her Words Doomed Emmett Till - The New York Times. She accused Emmett, 14, of accosting her, and her testimony led to the acquittals of her husband and his...
Apr 27, 2023 · Carolyn Bryant Donham, 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. She was 88.
Apr 27, 2023 · Carolyn Bryant Donham, the White woman whose accusation led to the 1955 lynching of Black teen Emmett Till in Mississippi – and whose role in the brutal death was reconsidered by a grand jury...
Apr 27, 2023 · Carolyn Bryant Donham died in hospice care Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday in the Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office. Her death marks the last chance for anyone to be held accountable for the kidnapping and murder that shocked the world.
Apr 28, 2023 · Carolyn Bryant had falsely alleged that 14-year-old Emmett Till grabbed her at the grocery store, an accusation that led to his gruesome killing.
Jan 27, 2017 · Carolyn Bryant Donham is quoted in a new book as admitting her long-ago allegations that Emmett grabbed her and was menacing and sexually crude toward her, “is not true.”
Apr 28, 2023 · Carolyn Bryant Donham's death at age 88 closes a chapter on one of the most infamous lynchings in US history. Prosecutors sought charges against her for the killing of Till, 14, up until the...
Apr 27, 2023 · JACKSON, Miss. — 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, a coroner’s...
Apr 27, 2023 · Carolyn Bryant Donham's death at age 88 closes a chapter on one of the most infamous lynchings in US history. Prosecutors sought charges against her for the killing of Till, 14, up until the...
Apr 28, 2023 · On August 28, 1955, a Black child from Chicago, Emmett Till, was brutally murdered while visiting relatives in rural Mississippi, after being accused of flirting with a white woman, Carolyn...
