This was a trending topic on Facebook, Twitter, and a story about this was even featured on Snapchat. Her story is what ultimately led up to his murder. He was killed by Donham's husband and his half-brother after Carolyn went home and told her husband that Till was flirting with her. Emmett Till was a 14 year-old African American boy from Chicago who was visiting his family in Mississippi during the summer of 1955. Previously, no one was sure exactly what the teenager allegedly said to Donham, but it was reported that Till was bragging to his cousins about having a white girlfriend back home when he was in the store Carolyn Donham, who was 21 at the time, was working at. However, she lied about him grabbing her and made lewd comments to her. “That part’s not true,” Donham told Timothy Tyson, who spoke to her for a new book, The Blood of Emmett Till. What makes this case even more heinous is that Tyson carried out Donham's interview back in 2007, when she approached him to write her memoirs, but this news wasn't known to the public until a decade later! Tyson also wrote down that Emmett's "whistle" Donham heard may have been intentional because he had a lisp. Carolyn Donham also claims that she isn't able to recall what else happened during their 1-minute encounter, although she states that “Nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him,” Donham said.
The thing is, Emmett 's death occurred 62 years ago. Donham is now 82 years old. It is very hard for the public to believe that she has had a change of heart over the years. How can any human being live comfortably knowing that they were responsible for the death of a child? This is not a case of manslaughter. Emmett Till was lynched. After Donham and Till's encounter, later on that night, Till was dragged out of his relatives' home by an angry mob led by Doham's husband and his half brother. His body was later found in the Tallahatchie River. He was beaten, shot in the head, one of his eyes was gouged out, and was tied down by a cottin-gin fan with barbed wire. His parents didn't even recognize him when they saw his corpse. When Donham's husband and half brother were on trial for murdering him, she lied under oath defending her spouse and brother-in-law. She committed perjury. If Nazi leaders were able to be convicted of war crimes when they were in their 90's, the United States can convict Carolyn for perjury. She deserves to spend the rest of her life in jail.
In fact, President Barack Obama signed an act last December that can put her behind bars. Ironically, it is called the Emmett Till Civil Rights Crimes Reauthorization Act of 2016. It will allow the FBI and the Department of Justice to reopen unsolved civil rights crimes that were committed before 1980. The Emmett Till Act calls for “the full accounting of all victims whose deaths or disappearances were the result of racially-motivated crimes.” Basically, the law states that the agencies will regularly keep families informed about the status of investigations and make information regarding the case available to he public. This bill was originally introduced by Alvin Sykes in 2005, who promised Mammie Till, Emmett's mother, that he would pursue her son's case after the two men were acquitted for his murder. Hence why it is named after him. Unfortunately, those men can't be brought to justice because of double jeopardy. Though Carolyn Dunham can definitely can be convicted and brought to justice so the relatives of the Till family can have some justice. Carolyn got the chance to live her life. Emmett Till never got the chance to live his.
Information from this post comes from:
http://www.ebony.com/news-views/emmett-till-false-claims#axzz4Xnf5Z4nQ
http://www.ebony.com/news-views/obama-emmett-till-bill#axzz4XndxyDvk
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till
