Carolyn Bryant Donham, a name etched into one of the darkest chapters of American history, played a pivotal role in the brutal death of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy, in 1955. Her actions ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-biography-roy-carolyn-bryant-and-jw-milam/ After their acquittal in the Emmett Till trial, defendant Roy ...

On 24 August, 1955, Emmett Till went into a local store in rural Mississippi to buy some bubblegum. Carolyn Bryant (now Donham), was working there while her husband, the shopkeeper, was away.

Despite her powerful testimony, Bryant and Milam were acquitted. They later bragged about committing the murder in a controversial magazine interview. Thanks to a fundraising effort by Tallahatchie ...