The woman at the center of the brutal murder of Emmett Till — which helped launch the civil rights movement — has revealed for the first time that she had "fabricated" the most sensational part of her testimony, reported Vanity Fair. Carolyn Bryant Donham has never spoken publicly since she testified in the murder trial of her then-husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, who were each acquitted less than a month after they kidnapped, tortured and executed the black boy. After their acquittal, the pair proudly admitted what they’d done to Look magazine, saying they basically had no choice but to kill the teenager for behaving lasciviously toward Bryant’s wife. But Donham, who later divorced Bryant and married twice more in the following years, admitted to author Timothy Tyson that she’d made up some of the claims that led to Till’s death. Donham was 21 years old in 1955, when she spent about one minute alone with the 14-year-old Till, who was visiting family in Mississippi from Chicago, while working in the store she owned with her husband. The teen, whose mother called him “Bo,” bragged to his cousin and some other boys that he had a white girlfriend back home — and the boys dared him to speak to the woman working behind the counter. A 12-year-old cousin briefly went inside but left Emmett alone with Donham for about a minute, and she later claimed Till had grabbed her and made lewd comments. His cousin, Simeon Wright, recalled decades later that couldn’t have been possible — and, it turns out, he was right. “That part’s not true,” Donham told Tyson, who conducted the first-ever interview with the elderly mother of two for a new book, The Blood of Emmett Till. She also claimed Till had wolf-whistled at her, but Tyson notes that might not have been intentional because the boy had a lisp. Donham claims she couldn’t remember anymore the rest of their brief encounter.... *HE WAS MURDER BECAUSE OF FALSE ACCUSATIONS this is nothing new... Thousands of black men have been lynched and or jailed for similar claims- all based on hearsay only*** Read more below #EmmettTill #BillCosby #JesseWashington ™@tattle.tailzz
