Till, 14, beaten and murdered in 1955 crime that shocked America, was accused of lewd comment in Mississippi grocery store
, he was accused by Donham, then 21, of making lewd comments and grabbing her at a grocery store.
Days later, Till was kidnapped at gunpoint by two white men. Evidence indicated that a woman, thought to be Donham, identified Till to them.Till, dragged him to a river and shot him in the head. They used barbed wire to tie his body to a large metal fan before dumping both in the river.His mother, Mamie Till Mobley, decided to leave her son’s casket open during his funeral in Chicago, to “let the world see what they did to my boy”.
Despite the warrant being publicly released at the time, the county sheriff told reporters he did not want to “bother” Donham since she had two young children to care for, according to the Associated Press. The sheriff alsoBryant and Milam were tried for murder but acquitted by an all-white jury. Months later, in a magazine interview, they confessed to killing Till. Both have since died.
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