RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Civil rights activists gathered Friday afternoon in Raleigh to call for the arrest of a woman who is connected to the murder of Emmett Till. The 14-year-old was murdered in ...
Carolyn Bryant Donham, a name etched into one of the darkest chapters of American history, played a pivotal role in the brutal death of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy, in 1955. Her actions and ...
When approached by the publication, Donham's son answered the door, to which the 88-year-old stood just feet behind him. Donham's last sighting was in 2004 when she was living in Raleigh, North ...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at and accosting her in Mississippi in 1955 — causing his lynching, which galvanized a generation of activists ...
JACKSON, Miss. -- A team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 ...
Devery Anderson, author of Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement and who once recorded Donham’s admission of lying about Till’s alleged sexual advances ...
After Mississippi’s top legal official shared there will be no plans to prosecute Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who accused Emmett Till of making lewd comments, now an unpublished memoir by ...
This 1955 file photo shows Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. Donham died Tuesday ...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at and accosting her in Mississippi in 1955 — causing his lynching, which galvanized a generation of activists ...