(ANSA) – NEW YORK, JUNE 30 – Emmet Till, the African American boy brutally lynched for racial reasons in Money, Mississippi, may finally have justice. 67 years after his death, an unexecuted arrest warrant against Carolyn Bryant Donham, identified in the document as ‘Mrs Roy Bryant’, was found in a basement of a Mississippi court. The Guardian writes, quoting the Associated Press.
In 1955 Donham was charged with the kidnapping of Emmett, at the time only 14 / year old. Now Till’s heirs are demanding the arrest of the woman who currently lives in North Carolina and is over 80. The document was found thanks to research by the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation, which includes members of the Till family: cousin Deborah Watts, head of the foundation, and daughter Teri Watts who are now asking the authorities to execute the arrest warrant against Donham. , who at the time of the murder was married to one of two white men tried and acquitted just weeks after Till’s kidnapping from her relatives’ home in Mississippi.
After being massacred, the boy’s body was thrown into a river. In August 1955 Donham unleashed her case by accusing Till of making inappropriate advances in her family shop in Money. A cousin of Till’s said instead that the boy had only whistled at the woman. According to the evidence gathered, a woman, most likely Donham, pointed out ‘Till to the men who then killed him. The arrest warrant was made public at the time but the Leflore County Sheriff told the press that he did not want to ‘bother’ a woman who had two children to look after. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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