The infamous crime of an Afro boy who would pay his accuser before dying

The family of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American at the time of his death, who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Mississippi, United States, in 1955, claims that new evidence has come to light that could put him behind bars the woman who accused him of having ‘harassed’ her, according to the separatist Jim Crow laws.

Members of the family and the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation were investigating a murder in Mississippi court when they They found an arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman who singled out the young Till for harassment in 1955, which was never carried out by authorities.

Donham accused Till of sexually harassing her and whistling in her direction while she was tending the family store in Money, Mississippi. At the time, laws separating African-Americans from whites were still in place and it was a crime for a black man to make erotic comments to a white woman.

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The case of alleged harassment

Emmett Till was only 14 years old when the woman accused him of having made lewd comments towards her, which were never verified.. The young boy was visiting his grandparents and had traveled from Chicago to see them in the small town in the American South.

Carolyn Bryant, who was 21 at the time she accused Till of harassment, told her husband about the alleged encounter. Her husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, John William Milam, They decided to kidnap the boy from his grandparents’ house, they kept him in a basement where they assaulted him. Later, they shot him and threw his lifeless body into the river.

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It was Carolyn herself who singled out Till so the two killers could kidnap the right individual, and it was because of this that a warrant had been issued for her arrest in the case. However, the Leflore County Sheriff decided never to execute the warrant because “I didn’t want to upset a mother of two children“, as reported by local Mississippi media at the time of the case.

In 1955, Till’s mother, Mamie Bradley, decided to have a funeral service for her son, which lasted four days in which the coffin was kept open, because she wanted people to see the violence with which they had murdered him. young man.

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This turned the little teenager into a symbol of the movement for the Civil Rights of African-American people in the United States.

There was never justice for his murder

Roy Bryant and John William Milam were tried for the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, but an all-white jury found them not guilty. A year later, both men would admit to having committed the murder in various interviews for the press of the time.

However, the authorities never took his statements as confessions to a crime. Currently, Teri Watts, daughter of Till’s cousin, is complaining about the arrest warrant against Carolyn Bryant Donham, which was never complied with, and is asking that the woman be arrested for her responsibility in the death of Emmett Till.

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According to the US newspaper ‘The New York Post’, the US Attorney’s office for the Mississippi region refused to comment to the press on this new finding. The Department of Justice closed an investigation into the case in December 2021, with no new arrests made.

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