The white woman whose accusations led to the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till in 1955, has died at the age of 88.<br /><br />Carolyn Bryant Donham died in hospice care in Louisiana on Tuesday, 25 April, according to a death report filed in the Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office on Thursday.<br /><br />When she was 21, she accused the 14-year-old of making improper advances on her in a grocery store.<br /><br />Till was kidnapped, tortured, beaten and shot before his body was tied to a fan blade and weighed down in a river.<br /><br />Bryant was never convicted nor charged with any crime.
