Unserved Arrest Warrant for Woman, Now In Her 80s, Who Accused Emmett Till in 1955 Is Found in Court Basement
Emmett Till, Carolyn Bryant Donham.Photo: AP; Gene Herrick/AP The unearthing of an unserved warrant has relatives ofEmmett Tillcalling on authorities in Mississippi to arrest the woman who falsely accused the 14-year-old Black boy of lewd conduct in 1955, leading to his abduction and lynching. The warrant was located in a file folder that had been stuffed inside an unmarked box. Emmett, who was from Chicago, was visiting relatives in Mississippi during the summer of 1955 when a woman — Carolyn Bryant Donham, then 21 — accused him of whistling at her and attempting to grab her hand and waist inside a store....