‘Till,’ about the lynching of Emmett Till and its impact on U.S. history, makes a strong case for why the White woman, who accused him of accosting her, should have been prosecuted.
This weekend’s release of “Till,” which co-stars Danielle Deadwyler and Whoopi Goldberg as Till’s mother and grandmother, comes two months after a Mississippi grand jury declined to indict Donham on charges of kidnapping and manslaughter. The jurors heard differing accounts from Donham and others about Till’s interactions with her at the grocery store and to what extent she was complicit in how her then-husband, Roy Bryant, and others chose to retaliate.
Three days later, Till’s body was found floating in the Tallahatchie River. In an interview they later gave to Look magazine, Bryant and Milam confessed to beating Till and shooting him in the head. To dispose of the body, they fastened a 75-pound metal fan, used for ginning cotton, to his neck with barbed wire, and then pushed his body into the river.
After Donham said she “jerked” her hand away, she said he came toward her at the cash register, and put “both hands on her waist” asking, “What’s the matter, baby,” according to the FBI memo. As Donham said she tried to free herself, she said the teenager told her that she “needn’t be afraid of” him because he had been “with white women before.”
Milam died in 1980, and Bryant died in 1994, and the world mostly lost track of Donham, according to the Daily Mail. In 2004, the year after Mamie Till died, the FBI reopened the murder as a federal civil rights investigation to find out if any others could be prosecuted, the FBI memo said. However the U.S. Justice Department determined there was no basis for a federal prosecution at that time.
The FBI launched a new investigation in 2018 into whether Donham lied on the stand, as Tyson suggested. The agency agreed there’s “considerable doubt” about the credibility of Donham’s testimony, however, agents hit a roadblock in proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Donham committed perjury, the FBI memo said.
“I did not wish Emmett any harm and could not stop harm from coming to him, since I didn’t know what was planned for him,” Donham said in the manuscript, which she gave to Tyson, the AP reported.
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