US woman whose accusation led to Emmett Till murder dies

The kidnapping and killing of 14-year-old Emmett Till decades ago became a catalyst for the United States civil rights movement [File: Brian Snyder/Reuters]

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 the United States, a coroner’s report shows.

Carolyn Bryant Donham, 88, died on Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed on Thursday at the Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office in Louisiana.