In an unpublished memoir, the White woman whose accusation prompted the killing of Emmett Till declined to retract her disputed account of events leading to Till’s murder. Lawyers and members of Till’s family say the book is filled with inaccuracies.
Carolyn Bryant Donham claimed in the book, obtained by reporters, that she pleaded with her husband and his brother not to hurt Till.
The revelation of the unpublished memoir comes more than 67 years after Donham, who was then known as Carolyn Bryant, encountered Till in her family’s general store in Money, Miss. Four nights after Till left the store, Donham wrote, “My husband, Roy Bryant, his brother, J.W. Milam, and a group of other men tortured and killed that young man. The horror that played out that night changed both my life and my country forever.”
His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, identified her son only by a ring he wore. In her grief, she called the Chicago Defender, one of the country’s leading Black newspapers, and told reporters she wanted the world to see the barbaric act committed against her son. Gruesome photos subsequently published in Jet of the boy with a beaten, bruised and bloated faceRoy Bryant and J.W. Milam were charged with murder and kidnapping and tried in September 1955 in Sumner, Miss.
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