Carolyn Bryant Donham, whose accusation led to Emmett Till's lynching, dies

Till’s kidnapping and killing became a catalyst for the civil rights movement when his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in their hometown of Chicago after his brutalized body was pulled from a river in Mississippi.

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