carolyn donham
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Wounds That Never Heal: Emmett Till Sign Hit With Bullets Just a Month After Being Replaced
If you drive along Mississippi’s Tallahatchie river, you might encounter a purple sign at Graball Landing. The marker was erected in 2013 to commemorate the spot where 15-year-old Emmett Till’s body was recovered. For the third time in its short history, the sign has been vandalized—riddled with bullet holes once again. As the Clarion Ledger…
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Emmett Till Biographer, Who Spoke to White Woman Who Lied on Teen, Turned His Interviews Over to the FBI [Updated]
Updated, Saturday, July 14, 2018, 12:23 p.m. EST: The author of the explosive Emmett Till biography that revealed that a key witness in the case falsely indicted the child to death via her lies, says that he received a call from the FBI weeks after the book was published. The AP reports that Timothy Tyson…