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Josh Salisbury

Emmett Till’s family call for woman’s arrest after 67-year-old warrant found

FILE: John W. Milam, 35, left, his half-brother Roy Bryant, 24, and Carolyn Carolyn Bryant Donham

(Picture: AP)

The relatives of Emmett Till, an African-American teenager who was lynched and tortured in 1955, have demanded a woman be arrested after an unserved warrant was discovered nearly 70 years on.

The warrant, charging a white woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, was discovered last week in a Mississippi courthouse basement, Clerk Elmus Stockstill said.

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