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Barney Davis

Emmett Till: woman whose accusation led to lynching won’t be charged

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.

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