White woman at centre of notorious Mississippi lynching case dies at 88

Carolyn Bryant Donham (AP Photo/Gene Herrick, File)

Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who accused black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, has died at the age of 88.

She died on Tuesday night in hospice care in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed in Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office.