Milam, left, and his wife sit to the left of Carolyn Bryant and Roy Bryant in a Mississippi courtroom in September 1955. 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 — then named Carolyn Bryant — accused him of making improper advances on her at a grocery store in the small community of Money. Evidence indicated a woman identified Till to her then-husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother J.W.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 27, 2023 20:34 UTC