Researchers found an unserved 1955 arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant at a Mississippi courthouse in June.
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 Black teenager’s brutal lynching.
Till’s cousin Patricia Sterling of Jackson, Mississippi, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the current Leflore County sheriff, Ricky Banks. The suit seeks to compel Banks to serve the warrant on Carolyn Bryant, who has since remarried and is named Carolyn Bryant Donham. The AP left a phone message for Banks on Friday, seeking comment. The sheriff did not immediately respond. Court records showed that the lawsuit had not been served on him by Friday.FILE - This 1955 file photo shows Carolyn Bryant. A relative of Emmett Till filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday to compel the current Leflore County sheriff, Ricky Banks, to serve an arrest warrant on Bryant in the kidnapping that led to the brutal 1955 lynching.
Weeks after Till’s body was found in a river, her husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam were tried for murder and acquitted by an all-white jury. Months later, the men confessed in a paid interview with Look magazine.
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