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Emmett Till relative sues to force arrest of white woman, 88, who triggered his lynching


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11737713/Emmett-Till-cousin-sues-force-arrest-white-woman-88-triggered-lynching.html

A cousin of Emmett Till is suing to try to make a Mississippi sheriff serve a 1955 arrest warrant on a white woman in the kidnapping that led to the brutal lynching of the black teenager. The torture and killing of Till that summer in the Mississippi Delta became a catalyst for the civil rights movement after his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in Chicago and Jet magazine published photos of his mutilated body. Last June, a team doing research at the courthouse in Leflore County, Mississippi, found an unserved 1955 arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham, listed on that document as 'Mrs. Roy Bryant.' DailyMail.com exclusively revealed that Donham, 88, is living in a small apartment community in Kentucky . She suffers from cancer, is legally blind, and is receiving end of life hospice care in the small apartment she shares with her son.

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