Her family has publicly denied that Donham has said that. The Justice Department reopened an investigation in 2018 after a book quoted Carolyn Bryant Donham saying she lied about Till's advances. His mother insisted on an open-casket funeral to show the world what was done to her son. GUIDRY: Till's death sparked national outrage and became a catalyst for the civil rights movement. As people of God, you have a certain responsibility - innate responsibility - to love everybody and to wish everybody well and pray for the well. And they have my sympathy, and they have my prayers. He says the mission now of the Till family is to serve humanity through grace. He had traveled from Chicago with Till in 1955 to spend the summer with family in the Mississippi Delta. The Reverend Wheeler Parker is Emmett Till's cousin. They later confessed to Look magazine that they had killed Till. Her husband at the time, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother were tried for Till's murder but were acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury. MICHAEL GUIDRY, BYLINE: Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was visiting relatives in Money, Miss., when he was beaten and shot to death for allegedly whistling at Carolyn Bryant in her family's grocery store. Michael Guidry of Mississippi Public Broadcasting reports. She has always maintained her innocence regarding the 1955 lynching of the Black teenager. She's the white woman whose accusations led to the killing of Emmett Till.
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