Carolyn Bryant Donham, woman whose claim caused Emmett Till murder, dies at 88

Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of accosting her in Mississippi in 1955 — causing his lynching, which galvanized a generation of activists to rise up in the Civil Rights Movement — has died at 88.

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