Clarence Page: Who is to be held accountable for Emmett Till’s death, now that the witnesses are gone?
The last survivor of the historical horror widely known as “the lynching of Emmett Till” has died, leaving behind an infuriating amount of unanswered questions.
Carolyn Bryant Donham died in hospice care last week in Louisiana at age 88.
She is remembered by history mostly as the 21-year-old woman who accused Till, then a 15-year-old Chicagoan visiting his Mississippi relatives, of behavior that violated the old Jim Crow South’s irrational but strictly enforced racial etiquette
