White Girl Whose Declare Precipitated Emmett Until’s Homicide Has Died At 88!

The white lady who accused Black teenager Emmett Until of whistling at and accosting her in Mississippi in 1955 — inflicting his lynching, which galvanized a era of activists to stand up within the Civil Rights Motion — has died at 88. Carolyn Bryant Donham died in hospice care Tuesday night time in Westlake, Louisiana. Posted By Persist