Emmett Till: family seeks arrest after discovery of unserved 1955 warrant
by Associated Press in Jackson, Mississippi from US news | The Guardian on (#60XCW)
Team searching courthouse for evidence about lynching of Black teenager finds warrant for arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham
A team searching the basement of a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim who initiated the hunt want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later.
A warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham - identified as Mrs Roy Bryant" on the document - was discovered last week inside a file folder that had been placed in a box, the Leflore county circuit clerk, Elmus Stockstill, told the Associated Press (AP) on Wednesday.
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