JUST IN: The woman whose accusations led to the 1955 murder of Emmett Till has died at 88.
Carolyn Bryant Donham, who accused 14-year-old Emmett Till of whistling at her and making sexual advances, leading toMrs. Carolyn Bryant sits with her husband Roy, in court where Roy and his half brother, J.W.
Milam, are on trial for the"wolf whistle" kidnap murder of Emmett Louis Till, in Sumner, Mississippi, Sept. 22, 1955.Bryant's then-husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, were charged with Till's gruesome 1955 murder in Mississippi. The two men were acquitted by an all-white jury and later confessed to the killing in a paid magazine interview.
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