Emmett Till accuser Carolyn Bryant Donham dies at 88
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Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman at the center of the Emmett Till case, has died in Louisiana at the age of 88 after battling cancer. In a 99-page manuscript, Donham denied wanting the 14-year-old Till to be killed. Till was lynched in 1955 in Money, Mississippi, after Donham accused him of whistling at her. Despite calls from Till's family to prosecute Donham, a Leflore County grand jury determined last year that there wasn't sufficient evidence to indict her on charges of kidnapping and manslaughter.
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