Carolyn Bryant Donham, who accused Emmett Till before he was lynched, dies at age 88
The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at her — causing his 1955 lynching in Mississippi, which galvanized a generation of activists to rise up in the Civil Rights Movement — has died at 88.
Carolyn Bryant Donham died in hospice care Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday in the Calcasieu Parish Coroner's Office.
Her death marks the last chance for anyone to be held accountable for a kidnapping and brutal murder that shocked the world.
Till's mother, Mamie Till Mobley, insisted on an open-casket funeral in their hometown of Chicago so the world could see her 14-year-old son's mutilated body, which was pulled from a river in Mississippi. Jet magazine published photos. -snip
Apparently she never showed any real remorse in her part with 14yo Emmett Till's lynching. In 2008 she admitted that she had made the accusations up.