A grand jury in Mississippi on Tuesday declined to indict an 88-year-old white woman. This woman was infamous for her sexual misconduct accusations against black teenager Emmett in her 1955 lynching.
A jury in Lefleur County overlooked charging Carolyn Bryant Donham with manslaughter and kidnapping, but there was an unexecuted warrant for Ms. Donham's arrest in connection with the lynching. , despite newly discovered evidence revealing that she may have helped her then-husband and brother-in-law in Till's kidnapping in Money, Mississippi.
Till's body was found mutilated and thrown into the river. Her public coffin funeral photo was a pivotal and impactful moment in the civil rights movement.
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