With fever mounting to impose mob justice upon her, the designated villainess in the Emmett Till case has slipped from the lynch mob’s noose. From the New York Times news section:
Carolyn Bryant Donham Dies at 88; Her Words Doomed Emmett Till
She accused Emmett, 14, of accosting her, and her testimony led to the acquittals of her husband and his half brother in a murder that helped galvanize the civil rights movement.
By Margalit Fox
April 27, 2023Only two people knew exactly what happened during the minute they were alone together in the general store in Money, Miss., on Aug. 24, 1955. One, Emmett Till, a Black teenager visiting from Chicago, died four days later, at 14, in a brutal murder that stands out even in America’s long history of racial injustice.
The other was Carolyn Bryant. She was the 21-year-old white proprietress of the store where, according to her testimony in the September 1955 trial of her husband and his half brother for the murder, Emmett made a sexually suggestive remark to her, grabbed her roughly by the waist and let loose a wolf whistle.
But we can tell that Emmett Till would never ever have done that because he is Black and the woman was only white.
