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.
Three days later his body was found in the Tallahatchie river. Till had a bullet hole in the head, an eye gouged out and other wounds. The murderers had wrapped barbed wire around his neck and weighted him down with a cotton gin fan.
It was a ghastly crime that changed the United States but the woman at the center of it, Carolyn Bryant, long remained an enigma.
A few weeks after the murder, the then 21-year-old testified in court that Till had grabbed and verbally harassed her in a grocery store. “I was just scared to death,” she said.
The all-white jury cleared her husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother JW Milam of the crime. They later publicly admitted their guilt, saying they wanted to warn other blacks. Carolyn Bryant disappeared from public view.
Now, 62 years later, it has emerged that she fabricated her testimony about Till making physical and verbal advances.
“That part’s not true,” Bryant told Timothy Tyson, the author of a new book, The Blood of Emmet Till.
That four-word confession, of sorts, has provided an unexpected coda to a story whose victim is commemorated annually.
Bryant spoke to Tyson, a Duke University senior research scholar, in 2007, when she was 72. The admission was not made public until now.
Bryant, who is still alive at an undisclosed location, told the author she could not remember other details about the fleeting encounter with Till, who went into the store to buy gum.
She did, however, express regret. “Nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him.” She said she “felt tender sorrow” for Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.
Till’s mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in Chicago and Jet magazine published photos of his corpse, sparking revulsion and galvanising the civil rights movement.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/27/emmett-till-book-carolyn-bryant-confession

how does this bring back the lives you wasted....mtchew

The term "SWAG" was originated in 1960's in a group of underground gay men -- It is an acronym for "Secretly we are gay".


Someone Cannot post what e like again.. Nawa o

burn in hell bih



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you wasted an innocent life,
now what will this confession do?
will it bring him back?
though you are are old, i pray God to punish you according to your
age. may you never escape punishment.
i am sure you have other confessions to make as well.
shame on you old hag.

Hmmmmm

Women and lies eh. Women cant do without lieing.

Confessing after everything don spoil.

May we never be victims of false testimony.

At least she owned up

Evil. Confession at a wrong time.

I hope she rots in hell.
Oloriburuku somebody.

like Trump like carolyn Bryant!
Mtsheew

So in her mind now, the confession don clear her conscience of all guilts, and she no get sin concerning the poor boy death, abi?

Racist christian

Same thing still holds today, we automatically believe any woman who says that a man harassed, abused or attempted to rape her without investigating her claims.

An unjust law is no law at all

ObaKlaz:
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.
Three days later his body was found in the Tallahatchie river. Till had a bullet hole in the head, an eye gouged out and other wounds. The murderers had wrapped barbed wire around his neck and weighted him down with a cotton gin fan.
It was a ghastly crime that changed the United States but the woman at the center of it, Carolyn Bryant, long remained an enigma.
A few weeks after the murder, the then 21-year-old testified in court that Till had grabbed and verbally harassed her in a grocery store. “I was just scared to death,” she said.
The all-white jury cleared her husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother JW Milam of the crime. They later publicly admitted their guilt, saying they wanted to warn other blacks. Carolyn Bryant disappeared from public view.
Now, 62 years later, it has emerged that she fabricated her testimony about Till making physical and verbal advances.
“That part’s not true,” Bryant told Timothy Tyson, the author of a new book, The Blood of Emmet Till.
That four-word confession, of sorts, has provided an unexpected coda to a story whose victim is commemorated annually.
Bryant spoke to Tyson, a Duke University senior research scholar, in 2007, when she was 72. The admission was not made public until now.
Bryant, who is still alive at an undisclosed location, told the author she could not remember other details about the fleeting encounter with Till, who went into the store to buy gum.
She did, however, express regret. “Nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him.” She said she “felt tender sorrow” for Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.
Till’s mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in Chicago and Jet magazine published photos of his corpse, sparking revulsion and galvanising the civil rights movement.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/27/emmett-till-book-carolyn-bryant-confession

Racism will get worse under Donald Trump

That pics of the boy's mum in agony...

...that gave me goose bumps.

Life is really unfair. Continue resting peace, little man.

Racists! No be Una fault Sha.... na una swear for Nigeria and other African countries

That how these "White" people keep telling lies about everything concerning us blacks.

From our history, cultures and traditions, to slavery, to our achievements.

If you think the black man is corrupt and evil, try the "white"man, your life would never remain the same.

RIP Till. Your death forever changed America.

What rubbish is this? So y is she confessng now, stupid woman, may the blood of d innocent boy never cease to harras u and your generation. Wow, i nearly made fp

if only our his fore fathers didn't sell slaves to the whites....
Kante kinte... of the ROOTS.. comes to mind..


if only Africa utilized black magic to protect theirs....



Oh Africa...

and we still fall for the white slavery over and over again...


God when will that Africa that Gen Gaddafi Saw come to existence....
when we can lie against whites in our own Court...

Racism will never stop in USA

There must be a special place in hell for the woman, her husband and sons.

racist moslem

catlova2:
Racist christian