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In this Sept. 23, 1955, file photo, J.W. Milam, left, his wife, second from left, Roy Bryant, far right, and his wife, Carolyn Bryant, sit together in a courtroom in Sumner, Miss. Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died Tuesday night, April 25, in hospice care in Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday, April 27, 2023, in Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office in Louisiana. She was 88. (AP Photo) **FILE**

Carolyn Bryant Donham, at center of Emmett Till death, dies

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

Author Timothy Tyson looks at a copy of Carolyn Bryant Donham's memoir in his home in Durham, N.C., on Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

Troubling questions unresolved in latest end to Till case

By Jay Reeves - Associated Press

In this 1955 file photo, Carolyn Bryant poses for a photo. A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman, Carolyn Donham, known as Carolyn Bryant, whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, despite revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and a newly revealed memoir by the woman, a prosecutor said Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022.(AP Photo/Gene Herrick, File)

Grand jury declines to indict woman in Emmett Till killing

By Michael Goldberg - Associated Press

In this Sept. 22. 1955 photo, Carolyn Bryant rests her head on her husband Roy Bryant's shoulder after she testified in Emmett Till murder court case in Sumner, Miss. Stymied in their calls for a renewed investigation into the murder of Emmett Till, relatives and activists are advocating another possible path toward accountability in Mississippi: They want authorities to launch a kidnapping prosecution against the woman who set off the lynching by accusing the Chicago teen of improper advances in 1955. (AP Photo, File)

Emmett Till’s relatives want accuser prosecuted in 1955 kidnapping

By Jay Reeves - Associated Press