Relatives of Emmett Till said authorities have known for decades about Carolyn Bryant Donham's key role in the Black Chicago teen's lynching death.
of the Black teenager's 1955 lynching and instead prosecute a white woman at the center of the case from the very beginning.
Relatives presented Mississippi authorities with a petition signed by about 250,000 people seeking a renewed probe of the killing, which came to demonstrate the depth of racial hatred in the South to the world. Other petition drives continue.Michelle Williams, chief of staff for Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, cast doubt on the possibility of a renewed investigation.
Federal officials had reopened the investigation after a 2017 book quoted Donham as saying she lied when she claimed Till accosted her. Relatives have publicly denied that Donham recanted her allegations, and Donham told the FBI she had never changed her story, the Justice Department said. Donham's then-husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother J.W. Milam, were tried on murder charges about a month after Till was killed, but an all-white Mississippi jury acquitted them. Months later, they confessed in a paid interview with Look magazine.The Justice Department found Bryant and Milam were not the only people involved, however, and estimates on the number of people who might have played a role in Till's killing range from from a half-dozen to more than 14.
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