The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in the United States, a coroner’s report shows.Carolyn Bryant Donham, 88, died on Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed on Thursday at the Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office in Louisiana.Till’s kidnapping and killing became a catalyst for the US civil rights movement. After his brutalised body was pulled from a river in Mississippi, his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in their hometown of Chicago. Jet magazine published photos.
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