Dozens of people gathered in Raleigh on Wednesday to demand a decades-old arrest warrant be served on Carolyn Bryant Donham.
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Dozens of people gathered in Raleigh on Wednesday to demand a decades-old arrest warrant be served on Carolyn Bryant Donham. The demonstrators marched inside a senior living facility, which prompted Raleigh police to respond to the scene.

In 1955, Donham accused 14-year-old Emmett Till of whistling at her at a store in Money, Mississippi. Days later, Till was kidnapped from his bed, tortured and shot. The fan from a cotton gin was tied around his neck with barbed wire before he was tossed into the Tallahatchie River.

Donham's husband at the time, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, were arrested and later acquitted in the case.

Sixty-seven years later, an arrest warrant for Donham was recently found in the basement of the Leflore County courthouse in Greenwood, Mississippi.

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