Roughly six decades after the acquittal of two white men who killed Emmett Till, a new revelation has come out of the case. Specifically, the testimony given by Carolyn Bryant was made up:
The article has more details about the events that take place prior to the trial and is well worth a read: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017...e-woman-at-the-center-of-the-emmett-till-case
In a new book, The Blood of Emmett Till (Simon & Schuster), Timothy Tyson, a Duke University senior research scholar, reveals that Carolynin 2007, at age 72confessed that she had fabricated the most sensational part of her testimony. That parts not true, she told Tyson, about her claim that Till had made verbal and physical advances on her. As for the rest of what happened that evening in the country store, she said she couldnt remember. (Carolyn is now 82, and her current whereabouts have been kept secret by her family.)
The article has more details about the events that take place prior to the trial and is well worth a read: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017...e-woman-at-the-center-of-the-emmett-till-case