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A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, most likely closing the case that shocked a nation and galvanized the modern civil rights movement.
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Officials reopened an investigation after a 2017 book quoted Carolyn Bryant Donham as saying she lied when she claimed Till grabbed her. The Justice Department says there's insufficient evidence to prove Donham ever told the author that any part of her trial testimony was untrue.
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Timothy Tyson is known as an award-winning writer and historian. His books 鈥淏lood Done Sign My Name鈥 and 鈥淭he Blood of Emmett Till鈥 capture a point in鈥
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Timothy Tyson is known as an award-winning writer and historian. His books 鈥淏lood Done Sign My Name鈥 and 鈥淭he Blood of Emmett Till鈥 capture a point in鈥
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In 1955, a group of white men in the Mississippi Delta kidnapped and murdered a young boy named Emmett Till. Till was 14 years old from and was visiting鈥
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In 1955, a group of white men in the Mississippi Delta kidnapped and murdered a young boy named Emmett Till. Till was 14 years old from and was visiting鈥