The woman accused of setting off the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till denied she identified him to his killers or wanted him dead.
even claimed she was a victim just like the 14-year-old black teen because of the way her life changed after Till’s murder that was carried out by her husband and his half-brother.
“I did not wish Emmett any harm and could not stop harm from coming to him, since I didn’t know what was planned for him,” Donham, who is white, argued in the manuscript written by her daughter-in-law. “I tried to protect him by telling Roy that ‘He’s not the one. That’s not him. Please take him home.’”
She also said she “always felt like a victim as well as Emmett” and “paid dearly with an altered life.” It is then alleged she told her husband about the alleged encounter, which resulted in Till’s abduction, torture and murder two nights later. Historian and author Timothy Tyson, of Durham, said he got a copy of the memoir from Donham, who he interviewed in 2008. Though he agreed to keep it out of public view for decades, he decided to release it now after the long-lost arrest warrant came to light.
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