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☆ Biden will create a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 murder was a catalyst for the civil-rights movement, on what would have been his 82nd birthday
  + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
President Joe Biden will create a national monument in honor of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley. Till's murder in Mississippi helped spark the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The monument locations will consist of a site in Chicago and two sites in rural Mississippi. Bryant and Milam then tortured and lynched the teenager before throwing his body into the Tallahatchie River. In March 2022, Biden signed into law the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which made lynching a federal hate crime for the first time in US history.
Persons: Joe Biden, Emmett Till, Mamie Till, Mobley, Till's, Biden, Emmett Till's, Carolyn Bryant Donham, Donham, Roy Bryant, Bryant, Till, Moses Wright, Milam, Pell Grant Organizations: Service, White, Black, Roberts Temple Church of God, Supreme Locations: Mississippi, Chicago, Wall, Silicon, The Illinois, Bronzeville, The Mississippi, Tallahatchie, Sumner
☆ Carolyn Bryant Donham, whose accusation led to the lynching of Emmett Till, has died at 88, coroner says
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Dianne Gallagher Sara Smart | Dianne Gallagher | Sara Smart | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
Donham, 88, died Tuesday in Westlake, according to a fact of death letter from the Calcasieu Parish Coroner. In August 1955, 14-year-old Till was beaten and shot to death after he allegedly whistled at Bryant – now Donham – in Money, Mississippi. Emmett Louis Till, 14, with his mother, Mamie Bradley, at home in Chicago. They were both acquitted of murder following a trial in which Carolyn Bryant testified that Emmett grabbed and verbally threatened her. In 2007, a Mississippi grand jury declined to indict Donham on any charges.
☆ White woman who accused lynched teen Emmett Till dies
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Brad Brooks | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
April 27 (Reuters) - A white woman whose discredited accusations against Black teenager Emmett Till led to his lynching in 1955 has died in Louisiana, according to a coroner's report. Carolyn Bryant Donham, 88, died on Tuesday in Westlake, Louisiana, according to the Calcasieu Parish coroner's office. Till, visiting from Chicago, was beaten, shot and mutilated in Money, Mississippi, on Aug. 28, 1955, four days after Donham, then 21, accused him of whistling at her. The all-white jury acquitted both men after Donham testified that Till had grabbed her waist and made sexual remarks while at the general store she ran. Bryant died in 1994 and Milam died in 1981.
☆ Threats to protesters in Emmett Till rally prompt cancelation of Christmas parade in Kentucky
  + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Mirna-Alsharif-Byline-Jm.Jpg | Mirna Alsharif | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +3 min
A Christmas parade planned for Saturday in Kentucky has been canceled after authorities received threats directed at protesters of an Emmett Till rally on the same day. The annual Jaycees Christmas Parade in Bowling Green, Kentucky was canceled out of an "abundance of caution," according to a statement. The Mistletoe Market, also in Bowling Green, was canceled on Saturday as well. Carolyn Bryant Donham, now 89, lives in Bowling Green, according to the outlet. "Late this evening, we learned of a threat to these protesters," said Warren County Sheriff Brett Hightower.
☆ ‘We can never forget’: Till movie sparks renewed conversations about the nation’s racist past
  + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | Claretta Bellamy | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
With the release of director Chinonye Chukwu’s “Till,” the conversation of the nation’s racist history and violence toward Black people is being revisited. Deadwyler told NBC News that the telling of Till’s story today is just as important as it was decades ago. “In the United States, we tend to think of our history in romantic terms,” Glaude told NBC News. The Senate passed a bill in January posthumously awarding Till and his mother the Congressional Gold Medal. But, Glaude said, even with these initiatives, without a racially just America, Till “died in vain.”“We can never forget,” he added.
☆ Mississippi unveils Emmett Till statue near where white men kidnapped and killed Black teen decades earlier
  + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +6 min
“It’s beautiful to be here,” said Webster, attending the ceremony on a sunny afternoon during a visit with Mississippi relatives. In 2007, a Mississippi prosecutor presented evidence to a grand jury of Black and white Leflore County residents after investigators spent three years re-examining the killing. This year, a group searching the Leflore County Courthouse basement found an unserved 1955 arrest warrant for “Mrs. Roy Bryant.” In August, another Mississippi grand jury found insufficient evidence to indict Donham, causing consternation for Till relatives and activists. The Till statue in Greenwood will be watched by security cameras.
☆ Mississippi community with Confederate monument gets Emmett Till statue
  + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +6 min
A Mississippi community with an elaborate Confederate monument plans to unveil a larger-than-life statue of Emmett Till on Friday, decades after white men kidnapped and killed the Black teenager for allegedly whistling at a white woman in a country store. In 2007, a Mississippi prosecutor presented evidence to a grand jury of Black and white Leflore County residents after investigators spent three years re-examining the killing. This year, a group searching the Leflore County Courthouse basement found an unserved 1955 arrest warrant for “Mrs. Roy Bryant.” In August, another Mississippi grand jury found insufficient evidence to indict Donham, causing consternation for Till relatives and activists. The Till statue in Greenwood will be watched by security cameras.
☆ Emmett Till's family rebuts claims in accuser's recently leaked memoir
  + stars: | 2022-07-15 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | Elisha Fieldstadt | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +4 min
Emmett Till's family disputes the version of events recounted in a recently leaked memoir by the white woman who accused Till of making unwanted advances toward her before his lynching in 1955. Till, 14, of Chicago, was visiting family when he entered the store in Money, Mississippi, where Donham, then 21, was working. Till's family members who were in the store that day said Till whistled, but didn't touch Donham, and Donham didn't scream. Malik Shabazz, a lawyer who appeared with the Till family last week, said that the effort to bring Donham to justice was worth pursuing. Bettmann Archive via Getty ImagesShe claims in the manuscript that Till identified himself.
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