The brutality of Till’s 1955 lynching, on display at his open-casket funeral, galvanised the US civil rights movement.
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 the United States, a coroner’s report shows.
Carolyn Bryant Donham, 88, died on Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed on Thursday at the Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office in Louisiana.
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