Carolyn Bryant

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Emmett Till Accuser Lives Out Final Days In Hospice Care (Radar Online)

Emmett Till's accuser, Carolyn Bryant Donham, has been spotted spending the remainder of her days in hospice care after going unseen for 20 years.

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Who is Carolyn Bryant Donham? Meet Emmett Till's accuser after 20 ... (Medico topics)

According to reports, Carolyn Bryant Donham, the person who started the chain of events that resulted in the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, is receiving hospice ...

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Emmett Till's Accuser Spotted For The First Time In Almost 20 Years (MadameNoire)

Carolyn Bryant Donham, who lied about 14-year-old Emmett Till harassing her in 1955, was seen in Kentucky looking frail and sickly.

According to NBC, Donham was named on the same warrant as the two men but wasn’t arrested nor prosecuted. The arrest warrant was discovered in the basement of a Mississippi court. They murdered him and threw his body in the Tallahatchie River. They weighed his body down with a fan from a cotton gin. An arrest warrant for Donham that was never served was discovered by the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation which included two members of Till’s family: his cousin Deborah Watts and her daughter, Teri Watts. Watts is the head of the foundation. She currently diagnosed with cancer is and is receiving hospice care in her home. The woman whose false accusations led to the death of Emmett Till has been spotted for the first time in almost 20 years.

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Emmett Till's Murder Horrified 1960s America — and Continues to ... (HistoryNet)

Till's savage murder became a turning point in the civil rights movement, as did the outcome of the killers' trial. The reverberations of this act of racist ...

She was living in a Kentucky and, when confronted, refused to comment on Till’s death or the unserved warrant. Police at the time also told reporters that they didn’t want to “bother” a mother of two by arresting her. Regardless of Caroyln’s inconsistencies, the men accused of Till’s murder were acquitted. Five decades later, she told the FBI that he had touched her hand. They then fastened barbed wire and a large metal fan used for ginning cotton around his neck and pushed his body into the river. The reverberations of this act of racist cruelty are still felt strongly today.

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