Carolyn Bryant Donham

Only two people knew exactly what happened during the minute they were alone together in the general store in Money, Mississippi, on August 24, 1955. One, Emmett Till, a black teenager visiting from Chicago, died four days later, at 14, in…

The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at and accosting her in Mississippi in 1955 — causing his lynching, which galvanized a generation of activists to rise up in the Civil Rights Movement — has died at…