A white woman who accused Emmett Till of verbally and physically accosting her in Mississippi in 1955 – inflaming tensions around the murder that helped spark the civil-rights movement —  has admitted she lied, according to a new book.

Till, who was 14 at the time of his brutal death, had allegedly whistled at Carolyn Bryant, a 21-year-old white woman, while at a country store in Money, Mississipppi. 

During the trial, Bryant testified that Till had also made physical and verbal advances toward her, a sensational claim that worsened tensions over the case. …Bryant admits that never happened.

“That part’s not true,” she told writer Timothy Tyson.

Emmett Till’s accuser admits: It was all a lie | New York Post

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