Carolyn Bryant Donham, who accused Emmett Till before he was lynched, dies at age 88
by The Associated Press
Apr 27, 2023
2 minutes
Updated April 27, 2023 at 1:27 PM ET
JACKSON, Miss. — 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.
Donham died Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a
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