'Nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him'
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Aug 08, 2018
2 minutes
"Nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him."
So says Carolyn Bryant Donham in historian Timothy B. Tyson's 2017 book, "The Blood of Emmett Till." You keep hoping for more, hoping to hear her wrestle with her crime, explain how she could have done what she did -- and how she lives with herself now.
But in the end, the admission is all
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