Stream CBSN live or on demand for FREE on your TV, computer, tablet, or smartphone. Till’s brutal beating death in Mississippi in 1955, the acquittal of his professed killers by an all-white jury and the photos of his dead body sparked outrage outside the state — becoming a catalyst for the national civil rights movement.Authorities say the 14-year-old from Chicago was killed during a visit to Mississippi after Carolyn Bryant Donham, a white woman then named Carolyn Bryant, reportedly accused him of grabbing her by the hand and waist and acting lewdly at her shop.Till was kidnapped days later from a relative’s home and then beaten and mutilated, before being shot, by Donham’s shop-owner husband at the time, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W. Tyson writes in his new book “The Blood OF Emmett Till,” due out next week, that in an interview conducted a decade ago she took it all back. In this 23 September 1955, file photo, JW Milam, left, and Roy Bryant, right, sit with their wives in a courtroom in Sumner, Mississippi. She was a high school dropout and former 2-time beauty pageant winner when she married ex-soldier and white supremacist, Roy Bryant. At the trial, Bryant testified Till made lewd advances, verbal and physical. Text us for exclusive photos and videos, royal news, and way more. “In court she testified to something that was tantamount to attempted rape. Crime “Hate destroys the hater, too. It's looked — and felt — like a whole different world as we've been social distancing and attempting to keep each other safe
But she sat down with author and Duke University scholar Timothy B. Tyson 10 years ago for his new book, Donham’s 2007 interview, when she was 72, is being published for the first time. It really speaks to history, it shows what black people went through in those days.”Emmett, who lived in Chicago, was visiting relatives in Money, a tiny hamlet in the Mississippi Delta region when, on Aug. 24, 1955, he went into a store owned by Roy and Carolyn Bryant, a married couple, and had his fateful encounter with Ms. Bryant, then 21.Four days later, he was kidnapped from his uncle’s house, beaten and tortured beyond recognition, and shot in the head.
Witnesses said that Emmett wolf-whistled at Ms. Bryant, though even that has been called into doubt.Days after the arrest, Ms. Bryant told her husband’s lawyer that Emmett had insulted her, but said nothing about physical contact, Dr. Tyson said. The book is published by Simon and Schuster, a division of CBS.“She was trying to say nothing that went on between them constituted any excuse for anyone harming him, let alone what happened to him,” Tyson said.Despite overwhelming evidence, the men were acquitted in less than an hour by an all-white jury. The woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, spoke to Timothy B. Tyson, a Duke University professor — possibly the only interview she has given to a historian or … She is the white woman who is infamous for her role in the murder of Emmet Till.In 1955, Till (14-year-old) was kidnapped, tortured, and murder by Carolyn’s ex-husband “Roy Bryant” and J. W. Milam (Roy’s half-brother). People is on Community! From Princess Beatrice to Meghan Markle You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications.
Carolyn Bryant Donham (born in 1934) is an American Citizen and Store Owner from Indianola, Mississippi. They would later admit to a magazine they had killed Till.“60 Minutes” was able to get some footage of Bryant in 2004, then Carolyn Donham, but she refused to answer any questions, as her son made clear to Ed Bradley.“I have some questions I’d like to ask her about Emmett Till,” Bradley asked in 2004.Carolyn Donham is now 82 years old.