NPR News reports the United States Justice Department has ended the latest investigation of the lynching of Emmett Till.<br />In 1955, young Emmett was abducted, tortured and murdered after being accused of whistling at a white woman.<br />Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were eventually tried for the murder.<br />Facing an entirely white group of jurors, the two men were acquitted.<br />Carolyn Bryant Donham, who was married to Roy Bryant at the time, has since said that she lied when making the accusations against Till.<br />According to NPR, it was a recently-published book that had propelled the Department of Justice to reopen the investigation.<br />'The Blood of Emmett Till,' written by Timothy B. Tyson and published in 2017, quotes Carolyn confessing that she hadn't been truthful back in 1955.<br />Months after their acquittal, Bryant and Milam confessed to killing Till in an interview with 'Look' magazine.<br />Bryant and Milam were never brought to trial again.<br />Emmett Till was merely 14 years old when he was brutally murdered. <br />A native Chicagoan, Till was visiting relatives in Mississippi at the time of his death.
