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<ul class="summary-list"><li>People searched a senior living center in an effort to locate <keyword id="14418002" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="carolyn-bryant-donham" source="Orion">Carolyn Bryant Donham</keyword>.</li><li>Donham, a white woman, accused <keyword id="12691400" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="emmett-till" source="Orion">Emmett Till</keyword> of making advances at her in the 1950s prompting his brutal murder.</li></ul>Demonstrators demanding the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham, a white woman connected to the death of Emmett Till, marched to her last known residence and a senior living center in Raleigh, North Carolina, <a href="https://www.wral.com/dozens-gather-in-raleigh-searching-for-woman-at-center-of-decades-old-arrest-warrant-in-emmett-till-s-murder/20362984/?version=amp">WRAL reported</a>."I want her to go turn herself in, and I want her to not be able to get no peace until she sees Emmett Till's face," a demonstrator said, per the outlet.The group of activists on Wednesday first went to an apartment in North Raleigh to look for Donhma before heading to a senior living center, which had been placed on lockdown, according to WRAL. Calls for Donham's arrest were renewed after a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/emmett-till-criminal-warrant-found-1955-mississippi-donham-arrest-2022-7">recent discovery of an unserved 1955 arrest warrant</a> for Donham whose claims have been connected to the kidnapping and lynching of Till, a Black teenager at the time.The demonstrators found the facility through the affidavit of the arrest warrant, per the report."Time to face your demons. Come on out," a demonstrator said, WRAL reported.During a visit to Mississippi in 1955, Donham's said that Till <a href="https://www.insider.com/emmitt-tills-family-continues-to-fight-for-justice-65-years-later-2021-12">whistled and made advances toward her</a>, prompting the kidnapping of 14-year-old Till by her husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J. W. Milam. The duo tortured and killed Till before disposing of his body in the Tallahatchie River.<div type="image" title="Emmett Till 2" height="2035" width="2713" msid="92789258" hostid="261" sizebytes="230352"></div>Both Bryant and Milam were later acquitted by an all-white jury for the brutal murder of Till, although they reportedly confessed to the crime. Donham, who was not charged for the incident, is still alive and now in her late 80s. According to the arrest warrant for Donham, which was found last month by a group of people searching in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse, she, Milam, and Bryant "willfully, unlawfully and feloniously and without lawful authority, forcibly seize and confine and kidnap" Till, as Insider previously reported. "You cannot ignore this. That is the reason why the warrant needs to be served, and it will help create change," Till's cousin, Priscilla Sterling, said, WRAL reported. "If this is what's needed to do for us to change our mindset, our behaviors, and attitudes in the society, then this will do it. This will do it. Execute the warrant."In 2017, a historian and Duke University professor said in a book that Donham, in 2008, admitted that a part of her testimony was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/us/emmett-till-lynching-carolyn-bryant-donham.html">"not true."</a> The Justice Department subsequently reopened an <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-officials-close-cold-case-re-investigation-murder-emmett-till">investigation that began in 2004</a> as a part of its Cold Case Initiative.Donham, who was never charged, later denied to FBI recanting her original testimony.Last December, the Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-officials-close-cold-case-re-investigation-murder-emmett-till">closed the re-investigation</a> while calling Till's death "one of the most infamous acts of racial violence in our country's history."

Demonstrators searched a senior living center for the woman connected to the death of Emmett Till after an arrest warrant from the 1950s was discovered

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The white woman whose accusations led to the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till has died. </li><li>Carolyn Bryant Donham died Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, at the age of 88. </li></ul>Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman whose <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/emmett-till-criminal-warrant-found-1955-mississippi-donham-arrest-2022-7">improper advances accusations about 14-year-old Emmett Till</a> led to the Black boy's brutal 1955 lynching in Mississippi has died — but her death doesn't bring the family any "closure or justice," a relative of the teen victim said.Donham died Tuesday night in hospice care aged 88 in Westlake, Louisiana, the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/emmett-till-carolyn-bryant-donham-1bcfff1c5a29484270d66b224422f112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press reported</a>, citing a death report from the Calcasieu Parish Coroner's Office. "Carolyn's death does not bring my family closure or justice, because death can never provide justice owed," Till's cousin, Joshua Harris-Till, <a href="https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2023/04/27/carolyn-bryant-donham-emmett-till-accuser-passes-away-at-88/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The Black Wall Street Times</a>. Harris-Till added, "Carolyn was simply evidence of the much bigger issue, now the only issue, which is the fact that the justice system is not just.""It didn't care about Emmett 68 years ago and with the release of so many officers who've killed unarmed Black and Brown people we're reminded that it doesn't care now," Till's cousin told the news outlet. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/us/emmett-till-lynching-carolyn-bryant-donham.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> reported in 2017 that Donham had told a historian that her allegations about Till were false.In August 1955, Donham accused Till of making a sexually suggestive remark to her and grabbing her by the waist. Afterwards, Till was kidnapped, beaten, and shot in the head on August 28, 1955, in Jim Crow-era Money, Mississippi. The teen boy's mangled body was thrown in the Tallahatchie River, weighed down by a cotton-gin fan.When Till's body was pulled out, his face was unrecognizable. But his mother demanded an open casket funeral in Chicago to show the sheer brutality of what her son had endured.Donham's then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, were arrested and charged with murder in connection with the lynching. The men were later acquitted in the killing by a white, all-male jury, but admitted to killing Till the next year in a Look magazine article.<h2>Decades of fighting for Till and the truth</h2>Till's murder was a watershed in the growing civil rights movement in the US in the 1950s and 1960s, ultimately contributing to the end of Jim Crow. In 2017, the Justice Department reopened the investigation into Till's murder after reports in a book that Donham recanted her account of the encounter with Till. <a href="https://www.insider.com/emmitt-tills-family-continues-to-fight-for-justice-65-years-later-2021-12">The case quickly soured after the Justice Department said there was insufficient evidence for federal charges.</a> When questioned directly, Donham adamantly denied that she had recanted her testimony to investigators.Despite the setback, family and advocates of Till refused to give up."We cannot allow his death to be in vain," Deborah Watts, one of Till's cousins, told Insider in 2021.Bryant disappeared from the public eye. She came under renewed scrutiny in 2022, when <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/emmett-till-criminal-warrant-found-1955-mississippi-donham-arrest-2022-7">a 1955 warrant calling for her arrest was discovered in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse</a>. The discovery recatalyzed calls from Till's relatives for Donham's arrest, but <a href="https://www.insider.com/emmett-till-grand-jury-woman-accusations-led-to-killing-2022-8">a Grand Jury declined to indict her, again citing insufficient evidence.</a>

Emmett Till's cousin says the death of Carolyn Bryant Donham, whose accusations led to the teen's lynching, will not bring his family closure: 'Death can never provide justice owed'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>President Biden created a national monument in honor of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley.</li><li>Till's murder in Mississippi helped spark the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.</li></ul>President Joe Biden on Tuesday established a national monument in honor of Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago whose 1955 kidnapping and murder in Mississippi was a defining spark in the emerging civil-rights movement.Biden made the announcement on what would have been Till's 82nd birthday.The president signed a proclamation forming the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, which is also reflective of the decadeslong civil rights work of Till's mother, who fought valiantly for equality for Black Americans after her son's murder. The monument will consist of a site in Chicago, the city where Emmett Till was born, and two sites in Mississippi, where the 14-year-old traveled during that fateful 1955 summer to spend time with his cousins."I know no matter how much time has passed, how many birthdays, how many events, how many anniversaries, it's hard to relive this. It brings it all back like it happened yesterday," Biden said as he recounted how he was 12 years old when Till was murdered.The president — speaking at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House — then pushed back against any attempts to minimize or rewrite history, especially as it relates to some of the most traumatic incidents in the nation's history."At a time when there are those who seek to ban books and bury history, we're making it clear. Crystal, crystal clear," he said. "We can't just chose to learn what we want to know. We have to learn what we should know. We should know about our country. We should know everything, the good, the bad, the truth. It's who we are as a nation.""For only with truth comes healing, justice, repair, and forming a more perfect union," he continued. "That's what's going to happen when visitors of all backgrounds learn the history of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley. Telling the truth and the full history of our nation is important."In August 1955, Emmett Till was accused by Carolyn Bryant Donham of making advances toward her while he was inside the Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market in Money, Miss., which at the time was run by Donham and her then-husband, Roy Bryant.The accusation prompted Bryant and his half-brother, J. W. Milam, to abduct Till at gunpoint from the home of his great-uncle, Moses Wright. Bryant and Milam then tortured and lynched the teenager before throwing his body into the Tallahatchie River.Till's battered body was weighed down by a cotton-gin fan and was found several days later.His face was unrecognizable. But, at his funeral service in Chicago, Mamie Till-Mobley insisted that her son would have an open casket funeral so the world could see the brutality and horror of what her son endured in the segregated South.<div type="image" title="Biden" height="4272" width="6400" msid="102116106" hostid="261"></div><h2>'A story of determination'</h2>Biden during his remarks also praised the Black press — specifically citing Jet magazine and The Chicago Defender — for their unyielding pursuit in revealing Till's case, calling them "another hero in this story."The Illinois monument site will be the Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, on the city's South Side, where Emmett Till's funeral was held in 1955. The Mississippi sites include Graball Landing, where it is believed that Till's body was recovered from the Tallahatchie River, and the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse in Sumner, where Bryant and Milam were tried and acquitted by an all-white jury.Theresa Pierno, the president and CEO of the National Parks Conservation Association, said that "there are few stories as heart wrenching" as Till's murder, but also remarked that "it is also a story of determination.""This is a story of a brave young mother who experienced a parent's worst nightmare, but found the strength and power to rise up and shine a light on injustice as a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Mamie Till-Mobley galvanized a movement and inspired a nation," she said in a statement.In a 1956 <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/till-killers-confession/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> in Look magazine, Bryant and Milam confessed to the murder. Both men have since died.Donham died in April. She was 88 years old.Last December, Congress voted to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Till and his mother.In March 2022, Biden <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-anti-lynching-legislation-law-federal-hate-crime-2022-3">signed into law</a> the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which made lynching a federal hate crime for the first time in US history.The president's push to elevate civil rights leaders and acknowledge the full scope of Black history comes as Republicans in recent years have sought to limit how race can be taught in classrooms, with conservatives also targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and hailing the Supreme Court's recent decision to end affirmative action in college admissions.Biden's original student debt relief plan, which was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/student-loan-forgiveness-blocked-supreme-court-strikes-down-debt-cancellation-2023-5">invalidated</a> by the Supreme Court, was also intended to be one that had a significant <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/24/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-student-loan-relief-for-borrowers-who-need-it-most/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racial equity element</a>, as the administration sought to narrow the racial wealth gap by forgiving $10,000 in loans for individuals and $20,000 in loans for individuals who received the Pell Grants given to low-income students.Vice President Kamala Harris — who last week sharply criticized Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida over revised state education guidelines for middle schoolers that mandate teachers include instruction about "how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit" — made reference to the issue again during her remarks at the ceremony."Today there are those in our nation who would prefer to erase or even rewrite the ugly parts of our past," she said. "Those who attempt to teach that enslaved people benefited from slavery. Those who insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, who try to divide our nation with unnecessary debates."DeSantis last week <a href="https://apnews.com/article/kamala-harris-florida-desantis-education-9ccbeac59d1f8289e1d8c9bccbff85a9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed back</a> against Harris, accusing her of seeking to "demagogue" the curriculum issue, while also stating that he "wasn't involved" in the changes made by state education officials.

Biden creates a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 murder was a catalyst for the civil-rights movement

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Threats to protestors at a rally in honor of Emmett Till led to the cancellation of a nearby Christmas parade.</li><li>Authorities in Bowling Green, Kentucky said there was a threat to "shoot anyone who is protesting."</li></ul>A Christmas parade in Bowling Green, Kentucky was canceled after there were threats to shoot protestors at a nearby rally in remembrance of Emmett Till. The Jaycees Christmas Parade scheduled for Saturday was canceled "out of an abundance of caution," according to a statement shared on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bgchristmasparade/posts/pfbid0xmeQNjJjzq7VTfjF7B6eNjB1ztnpyJPc8jk53x5aQUQawdQ4d3Wt11xvhGuXMymYl">Facebook</a> in which organizers said they were working "to come up with another date for the parade.""The safety of our participants and spectators is ALWAYS are main focus. We have been in constant communication with law enforcement and have felt, all week, that we could provide a safe, fun event. With this latest information we knew that postponing was our best option," the statement said. The SoKY Marketplace's Mistletoe Market in Bowling Green was also canceled "due to events beyond our control," the organization said on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sokymarketplace/posts/pfbid02nV2fD6eh3ZvnQ9SerDeqrWQnFct66te9dm3RyrWNFn7hrtvpbojDPvm9FXWwEu8jl">Facebook</a>, in a move to "ensure the safety of vendors and patrons." In a joint <a href="https://fb.watch/hcIlBTHyRA/">video statement</a> shared early Saturday morning, officers from the Bowling Green Police Department and the Warren County Sheriff's Office said there was a threat to the protest scheduled at noon on Saturday. "Late this evening, we learned of a threat to these protesters," Warren County Sheriff Brett Hightower said. "The specific threat is threatening to shoot anyone who is protesting and anyone helping the protesters."Hightower said authorities had not yet been "able to determine the validity" of the threat at that time. BGPD Chief Michael Delaney said the two offices are working with the Kentucky State Police, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security "to determine the origin of the threat."At least three groups had been planning to protest simultaneously at the city's justice center, Delaney said. Despite other cancellations, the protest proceeded as planned on Saturday, according to multiple reports. According to <a href="https://www.wnky.com/emmett-till-protest-organizers-explain-significance-of-event-saturday/">WNKY</a>, the protest was to demand justice for Emmett Till, the 14-year-old who was brutally lynched in 1955 in Mississippi after a white woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, accused Till of whistling at her.<a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/till-timeline/">Till was subsequently killed</a> by Bryant Donham's husband and his half-brother. When Till's mangled body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River, his mother demanded an open casket funeral in Chicago in what became a key moment of the Civil Rights movement. The men who killed Till, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, were acquitted of charges related to Till's death, never faced prison time, and have since died, according to <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-biography-roy-carolyn-bryant-and-jw-milam/">PBS</a>. Bryant Donham, now 89, was never charged and has been living quietly in Bowling Green, according to WNKY.Despite <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-officials-close-cold-case-re-investigation-murder-emmett-till">renewed efforts</a> to investigate Bryant Donham, a grand jury in August declined to indict her on charges of kidnapping and manslaughter, <a href="https://www.insider.com/emmett-till-grand-jury-woman-accusations-led-to-killing-2022-8">Insider</a> previously reported. Saturday's protest in honor of Till lasted roughly four hours as demonstrators demanded Bryant Donham's arrest, <a href="https://www.wnky.com/emmett-till-demonstrations-arrive-in-bowling-green/">WNKY</a> reported. Some attendees were armed, <a href="https://www.wbko.com/video/2022/12/04/watch-armed-protest-bowling-green-demands-justice-emmett-till/">WBKO</a> reported. Ronnie Ward, the BGPD public information officer, said in a statement to Insider that the "protests were peaceful." "No arrests have been made in regards to the threat. The investigation continues," Ward said.

A Kentucky city canceled its Christmas parade after someone threatened to shoot members of a group who planned nearby protests against Emmett Till's accuser

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A Grand Jury declined to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham for her role in Emmett Till's murder.</li><li>In 1955, Bryant Donham falsely accused a 14-year-old Till of catcalling and groping her.</li></ul>A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict an 88 year old white woman's whose false allegations against Emmett Till in 1955 led to his murder, the LeFore County District Attorney announced Tuesday.Carolyn Bryant Donham accused the then-14-year-old Black boy of catcalling and groping her at her family's shop nearly 70 years ago, which prompted two white men to abduct, torture, and lynch Till. Till was innocent.The men were arrested and acquitted by an all-white jury, but the recent discovery of an unserved arrest warrant for Donham from 1955, as well as publicity around her unpublished memoir, has raised questions around her case and the lack of consequences she's faced for Till's killing.<div type="image" title="Justice Department building" height="4000" width="6000" msid="93463651" hostid="261"></div><h2>Recent discoveries led to fresh eyes on the case</h2>The Department of Justice announced last year that it was ending its <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-officials-close-cold-case-re-investigation-murder-emmett-till">re-investigation of Till's murder, </a>but in June new evidence emerged locally to put fresh eyes on the case. A group searching the basement of the Leflore County Courthouse found the unserved arrest warrant charging Donham, who was 21 at the time, along with her then-husband Roy Bryant and brother-in-law J.W. Milam in Till's abduction in 1955, the AP reported. The two men were arrested and acquitted, but Donham was never charged. The Associated Press received a copy of Donham's memoir, "I Am More Than a Wolf Whistle." In it, she said she didn't know what would happen to Till, and when the men presented the boy to her one night for identification she denied that they had the right person in an effort to help him, the outlet reported.Insider has not seen the unpublished memoir. The Leflore County grand jury considered evidence and testimony about Donham's involvement in the kidnapping and death of Till, Leflore County District Attorney Dewayne Richardson told Insider in a statement."After hearing more than seven hours of testimony from witnesses with direct knowledge about this case and the investigators that investigated this case, the Grand Jury determined that there was not sufficient evidence to indict Donham," the statement said. "The Grand Jury heard testimony from witnesses detailing the investigation of this case from 2004 to the present day."The Grand Jury considered the charges of kidnapping and manslaughter, but returned a "No Bill" to the charges.

Grand jury declines to indict the 88-year-old white woman whose false accusations led to Emmett Till's death in 1955

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A group searching the basement of a <keyword id="11898268" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mississippi" source="Orion">Mississippi</keyword> courthouse located a 1955 <keyword id="13667072" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="warrant" source="Orion">warrant</keyword> regarding the <keyword id="12691400" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="emmett-till" source="Orion">Emmett Till</keyword> case.</li><li>The discovery has renewed calls for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham, who falsely accused the Black teenager of making improper advances.</li></ul>A group searching for contents related to the 1955 lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse has uncovered an unserved arrest warrant for the white woman whose allegations led to his kidnapping and murder, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/arrests-mississippi-kidnapping-emmett-till-49708de557faf747ec3e9fa8c021e9cd">according to The Associated Press</a>.The discovery has now renewed calls from Till's relatives for the arrest of the women, Carolyn Bryant Donham — now age 88. The document was discovered late last month in Greenwood, Miss., inside a file folder that had been left in a box. Leflore County Circuit Clerk Elmus Stockstill certified the form as authentic, per the report.Relatives of Till are hoping that the discovery of the warrant prompts a new investigation into his murder, which was a catalyst for the emerging <keyword id="12691401" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="civil-rights-movement" source="Orion">civil rights movement</keyword> of the 1950s and 1960s.Bryant Donham, who is named on the arrest warrant as "Mrs. Roy Bryant" — the name of her late husband who was one of the men tried and acquitted. She was never arrested or charged in the case. She is still alive and as of May, was residing in North Carolina, according to the most recent public records.Donham was married to Roy Bryant when she accused Till — who was visiting Mississippi from Chicago — of making improper advances while at the couple's store, Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market in Money, Miss., in August 1955.The accusation prompted Bryant and his half-brother, J. W. Milam, to abduct Till at gunpoint from the home of his great-uncle, Moses Wright, then tortured and lynch the teenager before throwing his body into the Tallahatchie River.Till's battered body was weighed down by a cotton-gin fan and was found several days later.His face was left unrecognizable. But, at his funeral service in Chicago, Till's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, insisted that her son have an open casket to show the brutality and horror of what her son endured.The newly-discovered warrant, dated August 29, 1955, charged the two white men involved in the crime — along with Donham — with the kidnapping of Till. <div type="image" title="Emmett Till 2" height="2035" width="3000" msid="92640020" hostid="261" sizebytes="247616"></div>An affidavit found with the warrant stated that the three individuals did "willfully, unlawfully and feloniously and without lawful authority, forcibly seize and confine and kidnap Emmitt Lewis Tell." (Emmett's first and last names are misspelled on the document, along with his middle name, Louis.)The two white men who committed the crime were acquitted, but in a 1956 <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/till-killers-confession/">article</a> in Look magazine, they confessed to the murder. Both men have since passed away.Keith Beauchamp, a filmmaker who directed a 2005 documentary, "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till," <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/30/us/emmett-till-carolyn-bryant-arrest-warrant.html">told The New York Times</a> that the discovery of the warrant was "a jackpot.""I hope that the authorities will do the job they were supposed to do in 1955," he told the newspaper.In past years, efforts to press forward on the case have stalled; a grand jury in 2007 declined to issue new indictments. And just last year, the <keyword id="11957149" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="department-of-justice" source="Orion">Department of Justice</keyword> <a href="https://www.insider.com/emmitt-tills-family-continues-to-fight-for-justice-65-years-later-2021-12">said</a> there was insufficient evidence for federal charges and closed the case.But after the group of researchers located the warrant in the courthouse, it was difficult for many of them to hold back their emotions."There were a lot of tears in the room," Beauchamp told The Times.

A 1955 warrant in the Emmett Till case has been discovered, renewing calls from the family for an arrest

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Deborah Watts, a cousin of <keyword id="12691400" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="emmett-till" source="Orion">Emmett Till</keyword>, says she wasn't contacted during the DOJ's <keyword id="49112" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="investigation" source="Orion">investigation</keyword>. </li><li>DOJ reopened Till's case in 2017 following new information presented in The Blood of Emmett Till book. </li></ul>Deborah Watts, a cousin of Emmett Till was hopeful when the United States <keyword id="11957149" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="department-of-justice" source="Orion">Department of Justice</keyword> reopened the case of the murder of her cousin in 2017 but that quickly soured. She tells Insider, she never received updates from the DOJ or Leflore county, Mississippi where a local investigation was taking place in tandem. That's why in 2020 she launched the Justice for Emmett Till campaign. "After we had been pushing for truth, justice and accountability the announcement that came from The Department of Justice that they closed the investigation was very disappointing." Watts who is a Co-Founder of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation told Insider. "We expected them to dig deeper than Timothy Tyson's book," she added.The DOJ reopened Till's case in 2017 following new information presented in Tyson's book, The Blood of Emmett Till where Tyson alleges Carolyn Bryant Donham — the white woman who accused Till a Black teen, of whistling at her and making advances in 1955 —recanted her <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/how-author-timothy-tyson-found-the-woman-at-the-center-of-the-emmett-till-case">statement</a>. When federal investigators followed up with Donham on that claim, however, she denied it. The author of The Blood of Emmett Till, Timothy Tyson did not record nor transcribe the information attributed to Donham in his book. He also gave inconsistent statements to the DOJ of whether a recording had ever been made."My reporting is rock solid," Tyson said in a statement to CNN. "Carolyn Bryant denies it and avoids talking about it like it was the plague. "I am standing in the public square telling the truth as I see it based on solid evidence," he argued.Insider reached out to Tyson for comment but did not hear back. <div type="image" title="Emmett Till" height="2249" width="3000" msid="88156302" hostid="261"></div>Till was just 14-years-old, visiting family in Mississippi, when he was falsely accused by Donham of whistling and making advances toward her outside the store she and her husband, Roy, owned. Less than a week later, Roy's half brother, J.W. Milam, snatched Till from his bed in the middle of the night, threw him into the bed of a pickup truck before viciously attacking him, shooting him in the head and tossing him into the Tallahatchie River. An all-white jury a few weeks later acquitted Roy and Milam of the murder, even though eyewitnesses identified the defendants in testimony and the men confessed to kidnapping Till.The initial investigation and trial for Till's murder was over in less than a month. At his funeral, his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley insisted on having an open casket so that the world could see what was done to her son. That image became a symbol of lynchings of Black Americans in the south during the Jim Crow era and was an igniter of the <keyword id="12691401" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="civil-rights-movement" source="Orion">Civil Rights Movement</keyword>. The fight for this racial injustice doesn't end with the DOJ's investigation closing, Watts says. While Till-Mobley passed away in 2003, Watts says she has to continue the fight for justice for her cousin. "This doesn't mean justice is over," Watts said. "It's far from it because we're focused on the state of Mississippi. We're focused on them writing the wrongs and doing the right thing. She added that "bringing Carolyn Bryant to justice" is "what we hope and that's what we're continuing to demand."Donham is still alive, and reported to be living in hiding under a false name. Last summer when <keyword id="11965127" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="racial-justice" source="Orion">racial justice</keyword> protest erupted in response to the murder of George Floyd, many protestors in the street linked what happened to Till and Floyd as "major media" catalyst for racial justice movements. "These two tragedies showed the tipping point of society," Benjamin Saulsberry, told USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/06/george-floyd-emmett-till-deaths-inspire-calls-change-justice/3135768001/">at the time</a>. "The Emmett Till murder was not the first murder. There were so many others. But it was the tipping point."Just as protestors last summer demanded all officers involved in the murder of Floyd be charged, Till's community is demanding all accomplices in his murder be held responsible. Watts is calling on the US Senate to pass the Emmett Till Antilynching Act so that President Joe Biden can sign it into law. She says she is connecting the past with the present which presents the urgency to also pass the Emmett Till Victims Recovery Program in the state of Minnesota. That law would ​​establish support for families of those killed by police violence. "We're still looking for Congress and the President to move this process forward and are hopeful that every one stands in solidarity with us as we continue this fight," Watts told Insider."We're not going to give up," she added. "We can not allow his death to be in vain."

Family, advocates of Emmett Till are 'not going to give up' after DOJ closed its investigation into his murder

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Over 12,000 people have signed an online petition to cancel an opera about the victim of a 1955 lynching, <keyword id="12691400" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="emmett-till" source="Orion">Emmett Till</keyword>.</li><li>"Emmett Till, A New American Opera" was set to open at John Jay College in <keyword id="11921345" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="new-york-city" source="Orion">New York City</keyword>.</li></ul>Over 12,000 people have signed an online <a href="https://www.change.org/p/cancel-a-new-american-opera-emmett-till-at-john-jay-college">petition</a> to shut down a new opera about the victim of a 1955 lynching, Emmett Till. The play, "Emmett Till, A New American Opera," was set to open on Wednesday, March 23, at The City University of New York, John Jay College's Gerald W. Lynch Theatre in New York City. However, critics of the play have called it historically inaccurate.John Jay College of Criminal Justice student Mya Bishop created the change.org petition, writing that the opera, penned by Clare Coss, centers a fictional "white school teacher named Roanne Taylor" and her "white guilt" rather than the torture and murder of Emmett Till, who was lynched by two white men for allegedly flirting with a white woman when he was only 14 years old.The petition reads, "Clare Coss has creatively centered her white guilt by using this show to make the racially motivated brutal torture and murder of a 14-year-old child about her white self and her white feelings.""Yes, the opera has a fictional white character — but it isn't about her," composer Mary D. Watkins said in a <a href="https://playbill.com/article/more-than-8-000-sign-change-org-petition-to-cancel-planned-production-of-emmett-till-opera-its-authors-respond">statement to Playbill</a>. "It is a true story that happened in our American history that could be told by anyone."Coss, 86, said Till's story touched her as a child and moved her to write this opera. "[Composer] Mary [Watkins] was 15 in 1955 and I was 20 — each of us deeply and differently impacted by the barbaric lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in the Mississippi Delta and the failure of justice," she wrote in a <a href="https://playbill.com/article/more-than-8-000-sign-change-org-petition-to-cancel-planned-production-of-emmett-till-opera-its-authors-respond">statement to Playbill</a>. "The one invented white character, Roanne Taylor, a schoolteacher who cares but is silent, reflects Martin Luther King, Jr.'s ultimate tragedy: the silence of the good people. She represents the context of white supremacy in which the world of violence and terror was enabled. She takes a first step forward to break the silence."Till, who was visiting family in Mississippi at the time of his murder, was falsely accused by Carolyn Bryant Donham, a white woman, of whistling and making advances toward her in 1955 outside the store she and her husband, Roy, owned. Days later, Till was taken from his bed in the middle of the night by Roy Bryant and his half brother. He was thrown into the bed of a pickup truck, viciously attacked, shot, and tossed into the Tallahatchie River. His brutal murder brought attention to the centuries of violence Black communities suffered in America. His story became a rallying cry of the <keyword id="12691401" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="civil-rights-movement" source="Orion">civil rights movement</keyword>.Until her death in 2003, Till's mother, Mamie Till, fought to get justice for her son to no avail. The Justice Department <a href="https://www.insider.com/emmitt-tills-family-continues-to-fight-for-justice-65-years-later-2021-12">closed its third investigation</a> into Till's murder in 2021.

Over 12,000 sign petition to cancel Emmett Till opera in New York City for centering a fictional white character

Welcome back to <a href="http://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/10-things-in-politics">10 Things in Politics</a>. <a href="http://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/10-things-in-politics">Sign up here to receive this newsletter</a>. Plus, download Insider's app for news on the go — click <a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id554260576">here for iOS</a> and <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.freerange360.mpp.businessinsider">here for Android</a>. Send tips to <a href="mailto:bgriffiths@insider.com">bgriffiths@insider.com</a>.Here's what we're talking about:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-guidance-trick-or-treat-celebrate-halloween-covid-coronavirus-mask-2021-10"></a><ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-officials-diplomatic-boycott-beijing-winter-olympics-over-xinjiang-genocide-2021-12">US officials plan to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/school-board-threats-masks-critical-race-theory-doj-domestic-terrorism-2021-12">An important school-board group is unraveling after it sent a letter to Biden likening threats against school officials to 'domestic terrorism and hate crimes'</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/de-blasio-vaccine-mandate-announcement-private-employer-msnbc-morning-joe-2021-12">New York is set to impose a sweeping vaccine mandate</a></li></ul>1. FROM THE WHITE HOUSE: President Joe Biden won't be cheering Team USA on in Beijing. In 2008, President George W. Bush traveled to China's capital, the first time a sitting US president attended the Olympic Games abroad, but relations between the world's two largest economies have cratered in recent years. Now, the US is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-officials-diplomatic-boycott-beijing-winter-olympics-over-xinjiang-genocide-2021-12">staging a full diplomatic boycott of the Winter Games that begin in February</a>.Here's where things stand as China approaches another moment on the world stage:This is about China's human-rights record: "US diplomatic or official representation would treat these games as business as usual in the face of the PRC's egregious human-rights abuses and atrocities in Xinjiang — and we simply can't do that," the White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, told reporters. She is referring to the Chinese Communist Party's repression of Uyghur Muslims, which human-rights groups <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-committing-crimes-against-humanity-against-uighurs-in-xinjiang-hrw-2021-4">have called crimes against humanity</a>.<ul><li>And it's not a 1980s reboot: Psaki made clear Team USA athletes would still compete, a departure from President Jimmy Carter's decision not to send the team to the Summer Olympics in Moscow over the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. <a href="https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/qfp/104481.htm">Sixty-five nations refused to send athletes</a>, but Carter's decision remains controversial. Just last year, the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee said the affected athletes "<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/sports/olympics/1980-boycott.html">deserved better</a>."</li></ul>China and the US continue to be at loggerheads: Before the White House formally announced its decision, the Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian vowed that Beijing would take "resolute countermeasures." So far, no other nation has explicitly joined the diplomatic boycott. New Zealand is not sending government officials, but Reuters reports their absence is mainly because of the COVID-19 pandemic. <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2021-12-05/u-s-officials-to-boycott-beijing-olympics-cnn">Japan, Australia, and some European countries are all mulling boycotts</a>.<ul><li>At the same time, China is said to be eyeing major advances: "Classified American intelligence reports suggest China intends to establish <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-seeks-first-military-base-on-africas-atlantic-coast-u-s-intelligence-finds-11638726327">its first permanent military presence on the Atlantic Ocean</a> in the tiny Central African country of Equatorial Guinea," The Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend.</li></ul><div type="image" title="Loudoun county school board meeting" height="1267" width="1689" msid="88145568" hostid="261"></div>2. A national school-board group is reeling after a controversial letter: Twenty-seven states have distanced themselves from the National School Boards Association since the association sent a September letter to Biden asking federal officials to step in against threats against school-board members that the national group compared to "a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes." The NSBA has since apologized for the letter. Republicans, hoping to be viewed as the party of parents in the midterm elections, have seized on the controversy, especially the Justice Department's swift response to the letter. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/school-board-threats-masks-critical-race-theory-doj-domestic-terrorism-2021-12">Read more about how the school-board group launched itself into a culture war</a>.3. Biden is set to tell Putin he'll pay a steep price if Russia invades Ukraine: Biden is expected to warn Russian President Vladimir Putin later today that the West may move to cut Russia off from the global financial system and sanction Putin's close allies if an invasion occurs, The New York Times reports. Some Biden advisors are skeptical the president can persuade Putin not to try to further destabilize Ukraine, which has already been bombarded with Moscow's tool chest of disinformation, cyberattacks, and military escalation. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/us/politics/biden-putin-call-ukraine.html">More on what's expected to come from a closely watched call between the two world leaders</a>.<div type="image" title="New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Wife Chirlane McCray speak onstage during the 2021 Soul Train Awards presented by BET at The Apollo Theater on November 20, 2021 in New York City." height="779" width="1559" msid="88145569" hostid="261"></div>4. New York City is imposing a sweeping vaccine mandate: Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that all private-sector employees who work in person would need to be vaccinated by December 27, which would be the most stringent local mandate in the US. De Blasio made the announcement with his term winding down; its enforcement is scheduled to kick in just five days before he's set to leave office, prompting speculation that Mayor-elect Eric Adams may nix it once he's sworn in. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/de-blasio-vaccine-mandate-announcement-private-employer-msnbc-morning-joe-2021-12">More on the mandate that "blindsided" local business leaders</a>.5. DOJ says Texas' new voting maps discriminate against Black and Latino voters: Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Department of Justice found that Republican-backed plans "deny Black and Latino voters an equal opportunity to participate in the voting process and to elect representatives of their choice in violation of the Voting Rights Act." This is the Biden administration's <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/texas-maps-garland-latinos-justice/2021/12/06/4011ce78-56aa-11ec-9a18-a506cf3aa31d_story.html">first</a> major redistricting case. Texas' attorney general, Ken Paxton, called the suit "absurd." <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/doj-files-lawsuit-texas-redistricting-plan-voting-rights-act-2021-12">More on the case</a>.6. Justice Department ends its renewed investigation into Emmett Till's murder: The DOJ said there "remains considerable doubt" about whether Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman who told the FBI that Till grabbed her and made sexually suggestive remarks, was truthful with agents, the Associated Press reports. Till's lynching became a seminal moment in the US civil-rights movement, and no one has ever been convicted over it. The two white men who were tried later admitted after their acquittals to killing the Black teenager. They died long ago. Officials reopened the case after a 2017 book quoted Donham, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/us/emmett-till-investigation-closed.html">whose encounter led to Till's death</a>, saying she lied to the FBI. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-emmett-till-a889b20258fa92496ee8a4e4e53575e5">"For 66 years we have suffered pain," the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., Till's cousin, told reporters in Chicago</a>.7. Rep. Devin Nunes is leaving Congress to help Trump: Nunes, who rose to fame as the House Intelligence chairman and is in line for another powerful post, is said to be leaving the Hill to run former President Donald Trump's new social-media company. The California Republican, per The San Joaquin Valley Sun, plans to step down from his position at the end of the year. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-congressman-devin-nunes-retiring-reports-2021-12">More on Nunes' rise and his relationship with Trump</a>.8. Democrats still want Biden's spending plan to pass by Christmas: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer cited the looming expiration of the expanded monthly child tax credit as one of the reasons Senate Democrats should stick by his ambitious timeline. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, one of the chamber's key swing votes, still has not signaled his support of the massive $2 trillion proposal. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chuck-schumer-biden-bill-timeline-christmas-child-tax-credit-checks-2021-12">An estimated 9 million kids could slip into poverty if Congress fails to step in</a>.<ul><li>Schumer wants Biden to extend student-loan pause: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chuck-schumer-biden-extend-student-loan-payment-pause-omicron-2021-12">The Education Department previously said it wouldn't be extending the pause past February 1</a>.</li></ul>9. Elon Musk unloads on Biden's spending plan: The Tesla CEO told The Journal that his recommendation was to just "can this whole bill." Musk specifically targeted a provision that would authorize a tax credit if Americans bought an electric vehicle assembled by unionized workers with batteries constructed in the US. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-says-dems-can-entire-biden-spending-bill-2021-12">More on his reaction</a>.<div type="image" title="30 rock christmas tree and ice skating rink" height="2274" width="3024" msid="88145570" hostid="261"></div>10. How to get lost in New York just like Kevin McCallister: New York City is one of the most popular settings of holiday films and TV shows. Insider's Gabbi Shaw ventured out to some of the city's locations immortalized in classics like "Miracle on 34th Street" and their more modern counterparts like "Elf." <a href="https://www.insider.com/iconic-holiday-movie-locations-nyc-real-life-photos-2021-12">See how you can take on the Big Apple just like one of your favorite Christmas classics</a>.Today's trivia question: In which year was the first Olympic boycott? Email your answer and a suggested question to me at <a href="mailto:bgriffiths@insider.com">bgriffiths@insider.com</a>.<ul><li>Yesterday's answer: Mark Twain famously called the Washington Monument a "hollow, oversized chimney" during the period <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/washington-monument-completed">when construction was halted just before the Civil War</a>.</li></ul>

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Demonstrators searched a senior living center for the woman connected to the death of Emmett Till after an arrest warrant from the 1950s was discovered

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