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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums1955 warrant in Emmett Till case found, family seeks arrest of 80 year-old Carolyn Donham
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JACKSON, Miss. -- A team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later.
A warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham identified as Mrs. Roy Bryant on the document was discovered last week by searchers inside a file folder that had been placed in a box, Leflore County Circuit Clerk Elmus Stockstill told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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Evidence indicates a woman, possibly Donham, identified Till to the men who later killed him. The arrest warrant against Donham was publicized at the time, but the Leflore County sheriff told reporters he did not want to bother the woman since she had two young children to care for.
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1955 warrant in Emmett Till case found, family seeks arrest of 80 year-old Carolyn Donham (Original Post)
TheBlackAdder
Jun 2022
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intrepidity
(7,302 posts)1. Good. nt
jimfields33
(15,808 posts)7. She's 88. Wonder if she's even alive.
Polybius
(15,423 posts)8. She is
The evil live forever.
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)11. Oops, she is alive.
jimfields33
(15,808 posts)12. Oh well.
Arrest her and get a trial going. Get the witnesses to say she was in the car and knew all about it. Then send her to jail for life. Justice!!!!!
Evolve Dammit
(16,736 posts)2. Justice for Emmett. This needs to be covered.
Bluethroughu
(5,172 posts)3. Show her a picture of that baby face full of light...
Then put the cuffs on her, then show her a picture of the photos of when he was found.
If she was involved, let her rot in a jail cell.
Deuxcents
(16,234 posts)5. I agree
Good on the family for never giving up.
Raine
(30,540 posts)4. Arrest her, it's long overdue! nt
Chuuku Davis
(565 posts)6. I am a hardass
Hang her in a public square. She is a accomplice to murder.
JI7
(89,250 posts)9. She belongs in prison
Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)10. K&R