![]() At a very young age, she marriedher husband Roy Bryant. Down through the decades, Carolyn Bryant Donham (she would divorce, then marry twice more) was a mystery woman. Till's body was found three days later, by a boy out fishing in the Tallahatchie River. In June, his family called for her arrest after an unserved warrant resurfaced. Issued on August 29, 1955, the warrant was based on the Sheriff's belief that Donham played a part in the kidnapping of Till, that she drove around the town of Money, Mississippi seeking him out and ultimately identified the terrified teen when he was brought to her on the night of Sunday August 28 that year, dragged from his bed, to be tortured and murdered by Donham's husband Roy and half-brother, John Milam. Keith Beauchamp, a filmmaker from New York whose research and documentary, The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, prompted the Department of Justice to reopen the case in 2004, believes the memoir is damning evidence. Unable to stand up the allegation in the face of the womans denials, investigators ultimately closed the case in 2021 leaving the surviving members of the Till family, heartbroken but not surprised. Emmet was sleeping in his relatives place at 2:30 am on August 28 when Roy kidnapped him. The newly discovered warrant, issued by the sheriff of Leflore County, Miss., and dated Aug. In 1955, Till (14-year-old) was kidnapped, tortured, and murder by Carolyns ex-husband Roy Bryant andJ. Now the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting has obtained a copy of an unpublished memoir by Donham in which she reportedly wrote that she tried to protect the boy by telling her husband, Hes not the one. The couple ran a local small grocery store. But in a small rural town, word spread fast. What she writes in the memoir does not give the same account that she had told authorities in the past. Let there be no doubt, with all its inconsistencies and fetid gloss, this tale confirms her own guilt. The murder of Emmett Till remains an unforgettable tragedy in this country and the thoughts and prayers of this nation continue to be with the family of Emmett Till. Till, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago, was visiting relatives near Money, Mississippi during the summer of 1955, when he entered a rural grocery store where Donham was working on August 24. It is still unclear what truly happened between Till, who was only 14 at the time, and Carolyn Bryant, then 21. ![]() So writes Carolyn Bryant Donham in an unpublished memoir that has just come to light about the abduction and brutal racist murder of Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old Black boy in 1955 Mississippi. ![]() Keith Beauchamp claimed to have found other suspects who were still alive and eyewitnesses who stated that Donham was in the truck when Till was abducted. ![]() Till, who died in 2003, became an activist and spoke of her son as the 'sacrificial lamb' of the Civil Rights movement for which contributions soared in the aftermath of his death. Donham, a high school dropout, used her good looks to compete in beauty pageants, winning at least two. Carolyn Bryant Donham's memoir, obtained by Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting (MCIR), constitutes new evidence that a Mississippi grand jury never heard when it declined to indict. Carolyn Bryant Donham's husband, Roy Bryant, passed away on September 1, 1994. Milam admitted to the crime," it continued. The site of Emmett Tills kidnapping in Money, Mississippi. She waxes nostalgically, as old racists often do, about Annies warm hugs, which would make all the hurt and pains disappear. Donham then introduces readers to Annie Freeman, the petite housekeeper with wrinkle-free skin the color of hot chocolate. ![]()
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