1955 Warrant In Emmett Till Case Found, Family Seeks Arrest Of Woman

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) â€" A team searching the basement of a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim who initiated the hunt want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later. A warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham â€" identified as “Mrs. Roy Bryant” on the document â€" was discovered last week inside a file folder that had been pla


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