CAROLYN BRYANT, THE WOMAN WHO ACCUSED EMMETT TILL OF WHISTLING AT HER, AND ULTIMATELY RESULTED IN HIS BRUTAL MURDER, HAS ADMITTED SHE LIED!
Carolyn Bryant, the woman who accused Emmett Till of whistling at her, and ultimately resulted in his brutal murder, has ADMITTED SHE LIED!
Carolyn has never spoken to the press about what exactly happened between herself and Till, but her then husband, Roy Bryant and his half-brother, J.W. Milam were both acquitted of his torture and murder in 1955. They later revealed in an interview with Look Magazine the brothers gloated and said they had no choice but to do what they had done in defense of Carolyn’s honor. They were each paid $3600 for their interviews.
Carolyn has since remarried twice over the years and is now known as Carolyn Bryant Donham. While speaking to author and scholar, Timothy Tyson she lied about her testimony.
via Vanity Fair:
In a new book, The Blood of Emmett Till (Simon & Schuster), Timothy Tyson, a Duke University senior research scholar, reveals that Carolyn—in 2007, at age 72—confessed that she had fabricated the most sensational part of her testimony. “That part’s not true,” she told Tyson, about her claim that Till had made verbal and physical advances on her. As for the rest of what happened that evening in the country store, she said she couldn’t remember. (Carolyn is now 82, and her current whereabouts have been kept secret by her family.)
Tyson’s book, to be published next week, was preceded by the definitive study of the case, Devery S. Anderson’s masterful Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement, which was published in 2015 by the University Press of Mississippi. (Last week, John Edgar Wideman’s meditation on Till, Writing to Save a Life, was named a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award.) Still, no author save Tyson has ever interviewed Carolyn Bryant Donham. (Her ex-husband and brother-in-law are both dead.) “That case went a long way toward ruining her life,” Tyson contends, explaining that she could never escape its notoriety. His compelling book is suffused with information that Donham, over coffee and pound cake, shared with him in what he calls a “confessional” spirit.
Carolyn, in fact, had approached Tyson because she was writing her memoirs. (Her manuscript is in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill library archives and will not be available for public view until 2036, according to Tyson.) Her daughter had admired Tyson’s earlier book, Blood Does Sign My Name, about another racism-inspired murder committed by someone known to Tyson’s family. And Tyson himself, a Southern preacher’s son, says that when he sat down with Carolyn, she “could have fit in at a Tyson family reunion”—even at its local church. Clearly, he observed, she had been altered by the social and legal advances that had overtaken the South in the intervening half century. “She was glad things had changed [and she] thought the old system of white supremacy was wrong, though she had more or less taken it as normal at the time.” She didn’t officially repent; she was not the type to join any racial reconciliation groups or to make an appearance at the new Emmett Till Interpretive Center, which attempts to promote understanding of the past and point a way forward.
But as Carolyn became reflective in Timothy Tyson’s presence, wistfully volunteering, “Nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him.” She also admitted she “felt tender sorrow,” Tyson would note, “for Mamie Till-Mobley”—Emmett Till’s mother, who died in 2003 after a lifetime spent crusading for civil rights. (She had bravely insisted that her son’s casket remain open at his funeral in order to show America what had been done to him.) “When Carolyn herself [later] lost one of her sons, she thought about the grief that Mamie must have felt and grieved all the more.” Tyson does not say whether Carolyn was expressing guilt. Indeed, he asserts that for days after the murders, and until the trial, she was kept in seclusion by her husband’s family. But that “tender sorrow” does sound, in its way, like late-blooming regret.
This is ENRAGING! Lock her in the nearest Black Gate Prison! Trump is about to reopen them! A boy lost his life over her lies and his mother, God rest her soul, lost her only child! The only good that came out of this was that it galvanized The Civil Rights Movement as African-Americans across the nation realized that not only were Black men and women in danger but so were children; and that racism was not just a Southern problem. Rest in peace Emmett, your death was not in vain!
Written By: Michael “Hey Mikey” Fanning
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