The NYT Reported:

For six decades, she has been the silent woman linked to one of the most notorious crimes in the nation’s history, the lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy, keeping her thoughts and memories to herself as millions of strangers idealized or vilified her.

But all these years later, a historian says that the woman has broken her silence, and acknowledged that the most incendiary parts of the story she and others told about Emmett — claims that seem tame today but were more than enough to get a black person killed in Jim Crow-era Mississippi — were false.

The woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, spoke to Timothy B. Tyson, a Duke University professor — possibly the only interview she has given to a historian or journalist since shortly after the episode — who has written a book, “The Blood of Emmett Till,” to be published next week.

In it, he wrote that she said of her long-ago allegations that Emmett grabbed her and was menacing and sexually crude toward her, “that part is not true.”

Basically a man was lynched for something he did not do, something many have known for many years and now the woman who lied has his blood on her hands.

A Change.org petition has been created to make sure that Carolyn Donham has charges brought against her for her part in the death of Emmett Till!

Sign the petition here.

Read more in the NYT here or in our post Carolyn Bryant Confesses That She Lied On Emmett Till and Got Him Murdered