
FILE: John W. Milam, 35, left, his half-brother Roy Bryant, 24, and Carolyn Bryant Donham
(Picture: AP)A white woman whose accusation against Emmett Till caused the black teenager to be lynched nearly 70 years ago will not be charged with kidnap or manslaughter, a grand jury found.
The brutal killing of the 14-year-old, found in a Mississippi river shot in the head, his body weighed down with a giant metal fan, galvanised the modern civil rights movement.