*U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions may reopen the investigation into the brutal murder of Emmett Till. The news comes one week after he met with relatives of the 15-year-old who was brutally killed in Mississippi in 1955, The Root reports.
Till, a black teenager from Chicago who was visiting family in Mississippi, was beaten, mutilated and shot to death by two white men — Roy Bryant and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, — after one of the men’s wives — Carolyn Bryant Donham — said Till whistled at her and touched her in a convenience store. The duo sank Emmett’s body in the Tallahatchie River using a 75-pound gin fan tied around his neck.
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Till’s mother opted to display his body in an open casket so the world could see how her son suffered. The case garnered international attention and gave momentum to the civil rights movement.
Carolyn Bryant Donham openly admitted to lying when she testified that Till touched her. She repeated the lie to the FBI a decade ago. The 82-year-old also confessed to lying about 10 years ago to author Timothy Tyson, a Duke University senior research scholar, who was working on the book “The Blood of Emmett Till.”
“That part’s not true,” Donham reportedly told Tyson about her claim that Emmett made verbal and physical advances toward her. “Nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him.”
In other words, Donham is simply an evil white women who took advantage of the racial climate she was living at the time that allowed white males to brutalize and murder people of color with impunity.
Of course an all-white, all-male jury acquitted Milam and Bryant in Emmett’s murder. The two men would later admit in a magazine that they had indeed killed the teen.
Sessions “said no one gets a pass,” recounted Till’s cousin, Deborah Watts, who met with the attorney general and ex-Alabama senator last week. Sessions also gave his support for legislation that would allow the Justice Department to pursue civil rights cold cases before 1980, AI.com reports.
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