Emmett Till’s Family Seeks Arrest Of Carolyn Bryant Donham After Finding a 1955 Warrant
A team has found evidence concerning the lynching of civil rights icon Emmett Till – an unserved warrant charging a white woman for his 1955 abduction – and the victim’s family wants her arrested. The warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham, 88, was found last week, Leflore County Circuit Clerk Elmus Stockstill said. She claimed in 1955, Till touched her and made sexual advances toward her in a family store, during the peak of segregation in the south. “Execute the warrant!” the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation posted on Instagram with a photograph of the warrant. The search group include...