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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Emily Wagster Pettus

Carolyn Bryant Donham, at center of Emmett Till death, dies

AP1955

The white woman who accused Black 14-year-old Emmett Till of making lewd comments about her before he was brutally beaten and killed in Mississippi in 1955 has died.

Carolyn Bryant Donham, 88, was diagnosed with cancer and receiving hospice care in Louisiana. The Calcasieu Parish coroner’s office confirmed her death to Mississippi Today on 27 April.

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