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Christopher Bucktin & Vassia Barba

Carolyn Bryant Donham, whose wolf-whistling claim led to death of Emmett Till, dies at 88

The white woman whose claims against Emmett Till led to his lynching nearly 70 years ago, has died at the age of 88.

Carolyn Bryant Donham had been battling cancer and was in hospice care.

Donham had been accused of setting off the 1955 lynching of Black teen, Emmett Till by claiming that the 14-year-old wolf-whistled at her while she was working as a clerk at a grocery store.

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