Carolyn Bryant Donham is a white woman who accused Emmett Till, a black teenager taking advantage of her, resulting in his death in Mississippi died in US Hospital Care. Coroner’s Report said.
Carolyn Bryant Donham White Woman Whose Allegation Led To The Death Of Black Teenager
Carolyn Bryant Donham, 88 years old, died on Tuesday in Westlake, Louisiana, following the death document filed on Thursday in Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office in Louisiana.
In August 1955, Emmett Till visited his relatives in Mississippi. Carolyn Bryant Donham accused him done inappropriate actions towards her at a grocery store. Emmett Till’s cousin was with Emmett Till, stated the black teenager whistled at the white woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham. The act flew in the face of Mississippi’s racist social codes of the period.
Evidence directs Carolyn Bryant Donham branded Till to her husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother JW Milam. The two killed the black teenager. An all-white jury ruled the two white men suspects innocent. Later in Look magazine, men confessed what they had done.
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Unserved Warrant of Carolyn Bryant Donham
On February 7, Priscilla Sterling, Till’s cousin, filed a lawsuit against Ricky Banks, present Leflore County Sheriff, to compel him to serve the 1995 warrant to Carolyn Bryant Donham.
In an April 13, Ricky Banks’s attorney stated that it was pointless in serving the warrant to Carolyn Bryant Donham because the court did not indict her last year.