A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham, whose accusation set off the lynching of Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago,
A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham, whose accusation set off the lynching of Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago.A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, despite revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and a newly revealed memoir by the woman, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
"I think it's important that someone be held accountable," said Christopher Benson, president of the Emmett Till A group searching the basement of the Leflore County Courthouse in June discovered the unserved arrest warrant charging Donham, then-husband Roy Bryant and brother-in-law J.W. Milam in Till's abduction in 1955. While the men were arrested and acquitted on murder charges in Till's subsequent slaying, Donham, 21 at the time and 87 now, was never taken into custody.
Tyson released the following statement about the Leflore County grand jury declining to indict Donham:
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