A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago.
GREENWOOD, Miss. --For her family, a Mississippi grand jury's decision not to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham is the latest in a lifetime of legal setbacks.
After hearing more than seven hours of testimony from investigators and witnesses, the grand jury determined that there was not sufficient evidence to indict Donham, Richardson said. Charges of both kidnaping and manslaughter were considered. Benson said the decision of a Mississippi grand jury not to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham did not come as a surprise.
Donham said in the manuscript that the men brought Till to her in the middle of the night for identification but that she tried to help the youth by denying it was him. Despite being abducted at gunpoint from a family home by Roy Bryant and Milam, the 14-year-old identified himself to the men, she claimed.
The most important thing that the Emmett Till case can do is to compel all Americans to examine our country's racial disparities in wealth, opportunity, health care, criminal justice, education, and virtually every other measure of well-being and access to the full bounty of American life.
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