Carolyn Bryant Donham, who claimed that 14-year-old Till had harassed her in 1955, died Tuesday while in hospice care in Louisiana. She was 88 years old.
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.
The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at and 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.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at and accosting her in Mississippi in 1955 causing his lynching