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 as ...

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.

Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman at the center of the Emmett Till lynching nearly 70 years ago, has died. The 88-year-old had been battling cancer and was in hospice care, Mississippi Today ...

Carolyn Bryant, second from right, sits next to her husband, Roy Bryant, at his 1955 trial in the murder of Emmett Till. At left are her husband’s half brother and co-defendant, J.W. Milam, and ...

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 Bryant ...

Carolyn Bryant Donham, the White woman whose allegations of a sexual advance led to the 1955 kidnapping and lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till, has died. The Calcasieu Parish coroner’s ...

Death of Carolyn Bryant Donham, Accuser in Emmett Till Tragedy, Stirs Heated Emotions: ‘May She Rot in Hell’ The Louisiana resident died at 88, 68 years after the infamous lynching and its ...

Donham – then named Carolyn Bryant – accused Till of making improper advances on her at a grocery store in the small community of Money. Sign in or Subscribe See Offers. Sign In: Login.

Carolyn Bryant who admitted to falsely accusing a young Emmett Till of whistling at her died at age 88 without ever being held accountable. (Photo courtesy of the Associated Press Gene Herrick) ...

CHICAGO — The white woman who accused Black teen Emmett Till of grabbing and whistling at her before he was kidnapped and lynched in 1955 has died.. Carolyn Bryant Donham died late Tuesday in ...

Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman whose claim that 14-year-old Emmett Till whistled at her during a grocery store visit led to the Black teenager's brutal murder in August 1955, died of ...