Emmett Till accuser dies; Carolyn Bryant Donham was 88

Carolyn Bryant and her husband, Roy Bryant, sit together in a courtroom in Sumner, Mississippi, in 1955. An all-white jury acquitted Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam in the death of Emmett Till, but the two later confessed to Till’s murder. (Associated Press)

JACKSON, Miss. — The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner’s report shows. Carolyn Bryant Donham was 88.

Donham died Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday in the Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office in Louisiana.