Emmett Till was lynched for more than 60 years. The investigation into his death will be reopened

At the time of the lynching in the "Deep South" of the United States, there was a story that turned into gunpowder. Visiting his family's home in Money, a rural area of ​​Mississippi, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black man, was killed by two white men for allegedly harassing Carolyn Bryant.

The young man was removed from his bed in two of the night of August 28, 1955, beating until it was impossible to recognize the features of his face, knotted with barbed wire around him. neck, to a fan of cotton separator and thrown into the Tallahatchie River. More than 60 years after the crime, the federal government is preparing to reopen its file, writes TIME magazine. He was terminated in 2017 because the two main suspects died and there was no evidence to charge anyone else.

The note sent by the Department of Justice to the US Congress to report on the reopening of the case for this renewed interest in the death of the teenager, but the US press is advancing that it was the book of the historian Timothy Tyson, "The Blood of Emmett Till," which led the authorities to return to the case.

In the book published last year, Tyson published an interview with the woman who accused Till of such non-consensual sexual advances. Carolyn Bryant – now Carolyn Donham – admits that Till never had with her the attitudes that were described by his in court and that could have been the only reason for the acquittal of Roy Bryant, so husband Carolyn and his brother-in-law JW Milam. Both confessed to the crime shortly after in an interview, saying at the time that "they had done nothing wrong". Both are dead and there is still no official culprit for the violent crime.

In front of a jury made up entirely of whites, Carolyne said that after entering her family's grocery store, Till caught her and started directing her. "19659002" What did he say when he grabbed his hand? At the time, the two men's council asked, according to the transcript of the FBI's lawsuit ten years ago, he said, "So, what do you think of an appointment, my darling? "says Carolyne Bryant, who, at twenty-one, would have left Till after hearing the invitation, but Till, according to her story, seized her again by the box, putting her hands around her waist. [19659002] "He said:" What is nice, is not it? You do not need to be afraid of me, "said the woman at Court, adding that Till had then described the "obscenities" that she would have made with "other white women."

In the book, Carolyn Dohnam is quoted as confessing that "this party does not have any". is not true, "referring to the alleged harassment of the young man from Chicago." Nothing that the boy could justify what happened to him, "said the woman, now aged 84. [19659002] The death of Young man is now considered by historians as one of the catalysts of the civil rights movement. took control of the United States in the 1960s. The streets were full of protests, involving Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, then anonymous. A few months after the murder of Emmett Till, Parks would refuse to offer his place to a white man on a bus and would justify the act as a tribute to the murdered young man.