BREAKING: Woman whose accusation led to Emmett Till's lynching dies of cancer
Some individuals ‘have been clinging to hope that she could be prosecuted. She was the last remaining person who had any involvement,’ said Devery Anderson, the author of Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement.Donham in August 1955 claimed that Emmett, who had just turned 14 years old, wolf-whistled her at a store in Money.
Her death comes a year after a grand jury in Mississippi declined to indict her over Emmett’s lynching.Get your need-to-know latest news, feel-good stories, analysis and more
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