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April 28, 2023

White Woman Whose False Accusation Led to Emmett Till's Lynching Dies Without Ever Facing Justice
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The white woman whose discredited accusations led to the lynching death
of Black teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi seven decades ago has died
of cancer at the age of 88. It was 1955 when Carolyn Bryant Donham
accused Till of whistling at her in her store. That prompted Till's
abduction, torture and murder. Donham's husband and his half-brother
were tried for the lynching and acquitted by an all-white jury. In 2007,
Donham confessed she had fabricated her claim, leading the FBI to reopen
Till's case. But the Justice Department ended its investigation in 2021
without filing charges. Last year, a team searching for evidence in
Emmett Till's case found an unserved warrant charging Donham in his
kidnapping.


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