'Carolyn was simply evidence of the much bigger issue, now the only issue, which is the fact that the justice system is not just,' said Till's cousin, Joshua Harris-Till. Emmett Till's cousin says, 'Death can never provide justice':
Bettmann/Getty Images; AP Photo/Gene Herrick, FileCarolyn Bryant Donham died Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, at the age of 88.Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman whose
"It didn't care about Emmett 68 years ago and with the release of so many officers who've killed unarmed Black and Brown people we're reminded that it doesn't care now," Till's cousin told the news outlet.reported in 2017 that Donham had told a historian that her allegations about Till were false. When Till's body was pulled out, his face was unrecognizable. But his mother demanded an open casket funeral in Chicago to show the sheer brutality of what her son had endured.Donham's then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, were arrested and charged with murder in connection with the lynching. The men were later acquitted in the killing by a white, all-male jury, but admitted to killing Till the next year in a Look magazine article.
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