Emmett Till's family find unserved arrest warrant by S_Fleary1
DEAD AND ALIVE: Emmett Till was lynched after Carolyn Bryant Donham falsely claimed he wolf-whistled at her
Relatives of the murdered 14-year-old black boy, say they found the unserved arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham – a white woman who accused the boy of whistling at her. Ms Bryant Donham claimed the 14-year-old boy grabbed her and made sexual advances as she was working in a store.Ms Bryant Donham’s husband at the time, Bryant, and his half-brother Milam, who were both white, were charged with Till’s murder.But Ms Bryant Donham is one of the last-living witnesses to the brutal lynching.
“We will bear witness to the hatred that has been embedded in our DNA since the slave ships arrived,” Ms Watts said on Friday,“We made a promise to [his mother] that we would persist and that’s why we’re here today.”
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