Woman Whose Claim Caused Emmett Till Murder Has Died

Woman Whose Claim Caused Emmett Till Murder Has Died
Carolyn Bryant in 1955. Gene Herrick/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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JACKSON, Miss.—The woman who accused teenager Emmett Till of whistling at and accosting her in Mississippi in 1955—causing his lynching—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.