Unpublished Memoir of Liar and Emmett Till Accuser Carolyn Bryant Donham Made Public

July 15, 2022

A memoir written by the woman who was at the center of the murder of Emmett Till has surfaced. The discovery, coupled with news of an unserved warrant from that time has raised calls to reopen the case.

According to NewsOne, an unnamed source provided a copy of a 100-page memoir from Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman who made the false accusation against 14-year-old Emmett Louis Till in Mississippi in 1955. Her claim led to the boy’s abduction, savage beating, and lynching. Till’s grotesquely disfigured face was published in JET Magazine, spurring many to mobilize within the Black community and serving as a flashpoint for the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The document, entitled “I Am More Than A Wolf Whistle”, was apparently composed in 2008 and 2009. The source states that it was dictated by Bryant Donham to her daughter-in-law. Bryant Donham is now 88, and her whereabouts are currently unknown.

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