Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, has died in hospice care in Louisiana. Till's kidnapping and killing became a catalyst for the civil rights movement when his mother insisted on an opencasket funeral in their hometown of Chicago after his brutalized body was pulled from a river in Mississippi. https://abc7ne.ws/3oJKzkB

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