The circumstances behind the 1955 death of 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was murdered by two white men in Mississippi has recently just added some more twists to the story. A unpublished memoir was released that was written by Carolyn Bryant Donham, the wife of one the men who killed Till according to the Associated Press.
The memoir written by Donham, whose husband and brother-in-law lynched Till, is titled I Am More Than A Wolf Whistle.
The title seems elude to Till being killed because he made “improper” communication toward her including using a “wolf whistle” to get her attention. In the memoir, Donham says that when her husband and brother-in-law took Till to her to identify him as the one who made advances toward she told them, “He’s not the one. That’s not him.” She claims she told her husband that he wasn’t the one who whistled at her and attempted to tell him to take the boy back home. Till was taken to her home in the middle of the night after the men kidnapped him before killing him.
“I did not wish Emmett any harm and could not stop harm from coming to him, since I didn’t know what was planned for him,” Donham said in the unpublished memoir. “I tried to protect him by telling Roy that ‘He’s not the one. That’s not him. Please take him home.’”
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