Voices: Why I can’t celebrate Carolyn Bryant Donham’s death
msn.comkilling in a 1956 interview with Look magazine. At that trial, Donham described Till’s actions toward her as sexually aggressive.
More than 50 years later, Donham confessed to Duke University historian Timothy B Tyson that she had perjured herself on the witness stand to make Emmett’s conduct sound more threatening than it actually was.
Tyson featured the interview in his book, The Blood of Emmett Till. In a statement after Donham’s death, Tyson said: “68 years ago, there was the unspeakable murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy from Chicago.
It has comforted America to see this as a story about monsters, her one of them. But the truth is what was unspeakable was the American social order that did nothing about Emmett Till or thousands more like him. ”I saw a lot of celebration online about Carolyn Bryant Donham’s death.
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