Emmett Till accuser Carolyn Bryant Donham dies at 88.
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Carolyn Bryant Donham, the White woman whose accusation led to the 1955 lynching of Black teen Emmett Till in Mississippi, has died at the age of 88. Till was beaten and shot to death after he allegedly whistled at Bryant, who was then known as Carolyn Bryant, in Money, Mississippi. Her husband and another man were acquitted of murder following a trial in which Carolyn Bryant testified that Emmett grabbed and verbally threatened her.
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