Carolyn Bryant disappeared from public view after alleging Till harassed her in a grocery store. 62 year later, it has emerged her story was not true
It was the lynching that outraged African Americans, spurred the civil rights movement and etched the victim’s name in history: Emmett Till.
The 14-year-old Chicagoan was visiting relatives in the cotton country of the Mississippi Delta on 24 August 1955 when he allegedly wolf-whistled at a white woman.
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