The family of Emmett Till wants Carolyn Bryant Donham arrested. They found an unserved warrant from 1955 changing her as a participant in his kidnapping, torture, and lynching.
The warrant for Mrs. Roy Bryant was discovered last week and archived in the Leflore County courthouse basement in Mississippi.
Till’s relatives believe the arrest of the white woman, nearly 70 years after the murder of the black teenager, may provide a modicum of justice.
Members of Till’s family are part of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation which uncovered the 1955 document.
Emmet Till’s cousin Deborah Watts is head of the foundation. And she and her daughter Teri Watts, delivered a petition, in March, to Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch. The petition requesting the prosecution of Donham was sent before the group uncovered “new evidence.”
“We’ve got a promise to many that we would persist, and that’s why we’re here today,” Teri Watts said at the Mississippi State Capitol in March.
“Serve it and charge her,” Watts said at the discovery of the warrant.
