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. Donham died Tuesday night in Westlake, …
— Mississippi’s top legal official has no plan to prosecute the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, an aide said Friday following revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and a newly revealed memoir by the woman. Williams also said Fitch’s office has not been in contact with Leflore County …
Emmett Till's family says authorities are protecting the woman accused in his death Enlarge this image toggle caption Natasha Moustache/Getty Images Natasha Moustache/Getty Images Days after the discovery of an unserved warrant from 1955, advocates and relatives of Emmett Till say they are pressing authorities to arrest and charge the white woman who may be responsible for his murder and …
Minneapolis CNN — When Deborah Watts met Philonise Floyd, they already knew each other’s pain without saying a word. The cousin of Emmett Till and the brother of George Floyd both know what it’s like to have a family member die suddenly and violently. “We’re both like, we’re holding the rope and we don’t want to let it go,” Floyd …
