Carolyn Bryant Donham
Title: World News #68 -Carolyn Bryant Donham (Emmet Louis Till)
Created: 2022
Medium: Graphic Design
Software: Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CC
Dimensions: 36″x48″
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“A Leflore County grand jury has yet again declined to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham for the 1955 abduction and lynching of Emmett Till, despite the discovery of an unserved arrest warrant in Donham’s name for kidnapping. The warrant dates back to the original investigation into the 14-year-old’s death, indicating that she was never arrested then.
Donham is the ex-wife of one of Till’s admitted killers, Roy Bryant. It was Donham’s encounter with Till at their Money, Miss., grocery store that Bryant and J.W. Milam claimed inspired their brutal abduction and lynching. Donham’s own culpability in the abduction and lynching of Till has been an open question since the first days of the 1955 trial.
Moses Wright testified at the original trial of Milam and Roy Bryant that a feminine voice positively identified Till as he was led to the car where his family last saw him. No other women are known to have witnessed the interaction between Till and Donham earlier that week.”
– Mississippi Free Press, Leflore County Grand Jury Declines To Charge Carolyn Bryant Donham For Emmett Till Lynching.
“A grand jury should hear this information along with additional information collected by authorities, Dale Killinger said after reading the memoir. “I always err on the side of a group of citizens hearing evidence and weighing it.”
Carolyn Bryant Donham’s memoir, obtained by Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting (MCIR), constitutes new evidence that a Mississippi grand jury never heard when it declined to indict her on manslaughter charges in 2007, he said.
But convincing Mississippi authorities to do so is another matter. In a statement, Michelle Williams, chief of staff for Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, called Till’s murder “a tragic and horrible crime, but the FBI, which has far greater resources than our office, has investigated this matter twice and determined that there is nothing more to prosecute.””
– Boston Globe, Here’s the proof against Carolyn Bryant Donham in the Emmett Till case. Is it enough to convict her?.
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