White woman whose claim caused Emmett Till murder died

White woman whose claim caused Emmett Till murder died

JACKSON, Miss. — The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at and accosting her — which caused his 1955 lynching in Mississippi and galvanized a generation of activists to rise up in the Civil Rights Movement — has died at age 88. Carolyn Bryant Donham died…Read More

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