Emmett Till Accuser Dead at 88

Last year a Mississippi grand jury declined to serve a 75-year-old arrest warrant found in the basement of the Leflore County courthouse for Carolyn Donham Bryant, who falsely accused Emmett Till of flirting with her in 1955 Money, MS, leading to the kidnapping and brutal murder of the 14 year old from Chicago who was in town visiting his family [click here if you missed that].

This week Bryant died in hospice care at age 88...

From NPR

The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at her — causing his 1955 lynching in Mississippi, which galvanized a generation of activists to rise up in the Civil Rights Movement — has died at 88.

Carolyn Bryant Donham died in hospice care Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday in the Calcasieu Parish Coroner's Office.

Her death marks the last chance for anyone to be held accountable for a kidnapping and brutal murder that shocked the world.

Evidence indicates a woman identified Till to Donham's then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, who killed the teenager. An all-white jury acquitted the two white men in the killing, but the men later confessed in an interview with Look magazine.