Emmett Till's family urges authorities to move on a recently discovered unserved warrant from 1955 that charges a white woman in the Black teenager’s murder and kidnapping.
Till's cousin Priscilla Sterling pressed District Attorney W. Dewayne Richardson, whose office would handle a potential prosecution, to issue the warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham.
The DA did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks was not immediately available for comment, but"I will see if I can get a copy of the warrant and get with the DA and get their opinion on it,” Banks said, according to the AP. Till, 14, of Chicago, was visiting family when he entered the store in Money, Mississippi, where Donham, then 21, was working. She accused Till of making improper advances after he whistled at her, an act considered at the time to be in defiance of the South's racist social codes.Her arrest warrant was publicized at the time but was never served because the Leflore County sheriff told reporters he did not want to"bother" Dohman because she had two young children to care for.
Till’s murder shocked the nation and acted as a catalyst for the civil rights movement. His mother insisted on an open casket to show the brutality of his killing, and thousands attended his funeral.
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