14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered because of one woman's lie. 61 years later, she admits she lied at trial of his killers.
Through his new novel, “The Blood of Emmett Till,” Tyson uncovers a haunting revelation that has remained untold for the past six decades, straight from the mouth of the woman who was at the center of the case: Carolyn Bryant. In it, Bryant admits to fabricating the details of her encounter with Till, muddling white America’s perceptions about the motive behind the young teen’s slaying.
On the stand, Carolyn Bryant testified that the Chicago boy had grabbed and physically threatened her, alleging that Till told her [he had]
“done something with white women before.”
Fast forward to 2007 during her sit-down with Tyson and Carolyn Bryant backtracks, admitting she lied about that particular part of her story.
“That part [was] not true,” she told Tyson of her claim that Till was verbally and physically aggressive towards her.
Carolyn Bryant, who has remained largely hidden from society since the teen’s murder, said what happened the rest of that evening at the store was a blur. She is now 82 years old and her whereabouts have been kept secret by her family
Tyson’s book revisits Till’s murder case, in which two white men — J.W. Milam and his half-brother, Roy Bryant — were tried for brutally beating and killing the boy after he allegedly whistled at Bryant’s wife, Carolyn, at the local country store. Furious, Milam and Bryant took matters into their own hands and kidnapped Till, who was visiting from Chicago, just three days later.
Till’s body was later found floating in the Tallahatchie River, so badly swollen and disfigured that he was unrecognizable. His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, specifically requested an open- casket funeral so that the world could see exactly what Milam and Roy Bryant had done to her son.
She felt comfortable clearing her conscience 61 years later because her privilege tells her that she won’t ever be prosecuted. No one will be charged; even if she was charged, she’d walk. The people that attacked and killed him in that horrific manner walked free; they even admitted they did it afterwards. I have no high hopes that justice will ever happen for Till or his friends and family. Let’s be honest, there are people still getting away with this even now, 62 years later and they, too, never see a prison cell or an executioner.
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