Emmett Till

The lynching of a Black teenager nearly 70 years ago shocked a nation and galvanized the modern civil rights movement.

In February 2007, a Mississippi grand jury declined to indict anyone, and the Justice Department announced it was closing the case. “It helps the younger generations identify how far we’ve come with the many liberties and civil rights that we’ve gained since Emmett’s death,” Gordon said. Till’s body was exhumed, in part to confirm it was he. She claimed that Till then volunteered that he was the one they were looking for. Relatives told the AP that Till had whistled at the white woman, but denied that he touched her as she’d claimed. While the men were arrested and acquitted on murder charges in Till’s subsequent slaying, Donham, 21 at the time, was never taken into custody.

Yesterday, a grand jury in Mississippi declined to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham — the woman whose false accusations sparked Emmett Till's lynching. In 1955, two ...

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A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict a white woman whose discredited accusations against Emmett Till in 1955 led to the lynching of the Black ...

The Aug. 29, 1955, warrant ordered Donham, her husband at the time Roy Bryant and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, to be arrested for kidnapping. Till, visiting from Chicago, was beaten, shot and mutilated in Money, Mississippi, on Aug. 28, 1955, four days after Donham, then 20, accused him of whistling at her. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

A jury found there was insufficient evidence to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham despite recent revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and the 87-year-old's ...

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The grand jury said there was not enough evidence to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham in the brutal death Till who was abducted, killed and thrown in a river nearly ...

Mamie Till Mobley’s decision to open Till’s casket for his funeral in Chicago showed the horror of what occurred and fueled the civil rights movement. She accused him of making lewd remarks and grabbing her while she was working alone at a family business in Money, Mississippi. The men were arrested and acquitted on murder charges in the killing of Till. Donham, who is now 87, was never arrested. “The prosecutor tried his best, and we appreciate his efforts, but he alone cannot undo hundreds of years of anti-Black systems that guaranteed those who killed Emmett Till would go unpunished, to this day,” Parker said. “After hearing every aspect of the investigation and evidence collected regarding Donham’s involvement, the Grand Jury returned a ‘No Bill’ to the charges of both Kidnapping and Manslaughter,” the statement said. A Mississippi grand jury will not indict the white woman who accused 14-year-old Emmett Till of making advances toward her nearly 70 years ago, CNN reports.

The decision comes despite recent revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and the 87-year-old Carolyn Bryant Donham's unpublished memoir.

Two years later, Congress passed the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act. She claimed that Till then volunteered that he was the one they were looking for. Relatives said that Till had whistled at the white woman, but denied that he touched her as she’d claimed.

A jury found there was insufficient evidence to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham despite recent revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and the 87-year-old's ...

Till’s body was exhumed, in part to confirm it was he. “Justice is not always locking somebody up and throwing the keys away,” Gordon said. “Ms. Donham has not gone to jail. Till’s battered, disfigured body was found days later in a river. They were not charged with a federal crime, and both have long since died. Relatives said that Till had whistled at the white woman, but denied that he touched her as she’d claimed.

'… we're still going to be calling for justice for Emmett Till'

In February 2007, a Mississippi grand jury declined to indict anyone, and the Justice Department announced it was closing the case. “It helps the younger generations identify how far we’ve come with the many liberties and civil rights that we’ve gained since Emmett’s death,” Gordon said. Till’s body was exhumed, in part to confirm it was he. She claimed that Till then volunteered that he was the one they were looking for. Relatives told the AP that Till had whistled at the white woman, but denied that he touched her as she’d claimed. While the men were arrested and acquitted on murder charges in Till’s subsequent slaying, Donham, 21 at the time, was never taken into custody.