Emmett Till Accuser Carolyn Bryant Donham Dies at 88

Carolyn Bryant Donham, whose accusation led to the lynching of Emmett Till, has died at 88, coroner says

Later, her husband, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, took Till from his bed and ordered him into the back of a pickup truck and beat him before shooting him in the head and tossing his body into the Tallahatchie River. They were both acquitted of murder following a trial in which Carolyn Bryant testified that Emmett grabbed and verbally threatened her.

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Woman at center of Till killing has died

The white woman at the center of the Emmett Till saga, Carolyn Bryant Donham, has died. Megan LeBoeuf, chief investigator for the Calcasieu Parish coroner’s office, confirmed Donham’s death. The 88-year-old was suffering from cancer and was receiving end-of-life hospice care.

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Carolyn Bryant Donham, woman at center of Emmett Till killing, dies

Donham had been accused of setting off the 1955 lynching of the 14-year-old. Her death comes after a Mississippi grand jury declined to indict her in August last year over Till’s death.

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Woman at centre of 14-year-old’s lynching 70 years ago dies at 88

Carolyn Bryant Donham, who was at the centre of Emmett Till’s lynching, has died in Louisiana after a battle with cancer

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Carolyn Bryant Donham, woman at center of Emmett Till death, dies

The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana.

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Carolyn Bryant Donham, whose accusations led to murder of Emmett Till, dies at 88

Carolyn Bryant Donham, whose accusations led to murder of Emmett Till, has died at 88.

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Carolyn Bryant Donham passed away in Louisiana.

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Emmett Till accuser Carolyn Bryant Donham dies aged 88

Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman whose accusation against Emmett Till led to his lynching, has died at the age of 88. She died in Louisiana, where she'd been living quietly.

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Carolyn Bryant Donham, woman at the center of the lynching of Black teen Emmett Till, has died

The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner’s report shows. Carolyn Bryant Donham was 88.

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