Accuser Linked In 1955 Emmet Till Murder Admits Lies On The New Book

62 years ago a story about a boy who was brutally murdered and then dumped into a river propelled the civil rights movement in America changing it forever. They beat, shot and disfigured his body beyond recognition acquitted at the hands of an all-white, all-male jury.

But after the trial, Carolyn hid from the media and after the long silence, she finally broke her silence. According to the Vanity Fair, Timothy Tyson, a Duke University senior research scholar, interviewed Carolyn Donham in 2007 and she confessed that her testimony about Till made verbal and physical advances on her were false.

It was written in his book "The Blood of Emmet Till" which will come out this week. Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy who was black, was tortured and killed in Mississippi after allegedly whistling at a white woman, then known as Carolyn Bryant.

The trial took place at Tallahatchie County courthouse in Mississippi in 1955 in an all-white.The all-male jury which they only took less than an hour to acquit Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam of the crime, which they admitted to law enforcement.  

According to the Daily Mail, After Emmett's death, her mother Mamie Till Mobley insisted that his funeral be an open casket so that the world could see what had been done to him as a result of racism. Because of the image of his inflated, contorted face made the cover of Jet Magazine, and kindled and mobilized the public to rally for equal rights.

It became the symbol the civil rights movement. Mamie Till-Mobley, who was determined to bringing killers of her son to justice, campaigned for civil rights for her entire life until she died in 2003.

In the interview, Tyson said that she admitted she felt tender sorrow for Mamie Till-Mobley because like her she had lost her son too. In the end, Donham was asked by the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation if she would have the "decency and courage" to speak with Till's relatives. 

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