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X-WR-CALNAME:Carolyn Bryant Donham & the Unending Emmett Till Story
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LOCATION:111 Adams Avenue\nLewes DE 19958
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Bryant Donham & the Unending Emmett Till Story
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DESCRIPTION:“Mississippi Grand Jury Declines to Indict Woman in Emmett Ti
 ll\nMurder Case” was the headline on August 9\, 2022. The woman is\nCaro
 lyn Bryant Donham (now 88)\, who accused 14-year-old Emmett Till of\nwhist
 ling at her in 1955. Her late husband\, Roy Bryant\, was one of the\nmen w
 ho murdered Till\, though an all-white jury acquitted the two\ndefendants.
  Ms. Donham was again in the news when an unserved 1955\nwarrant for her a
 rrest in the Till case was found in a Greenwood\,\nMississippi court basem
 ent. This year also saw the unauthorized\nrelease of her unpublished memoi
 r\, which was dictated in 2008 to\nDonham’s daughter-in-law. And just re
 cently\, a rare photo of her was\ntaken. Now living in Kentucky\, it was t
 he first time in over two\ndecades in which she had been seen in public. H
 ow legally and morally\nculpable is Carolyn Bryant? And what about her unp
 ublished memoir? How\nmuch of it is true? Devery Anderson\, one of the lea
 ding Emmett Till\nscholars\, will answer such questions and others\, in co
 nversation with\nRonald Collins\, a retired law professor and the Library
 ’s first\nDistinguished Lecturer. Devery Anderson is the author of Emmet
 t Till:\nThe Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights\
 nMovement. He earned a BA in history from the University of Utah and a\nMa
 ster’s in publishing from George Washington University. He is the\nedito
 r or co-editor of four books related to Mormons and the West\, two\nof whi
 ch won the Steven F. Christensen Award for Best Documentary from\nthe Morm
 on History Association in 2006. His forthcoming book\, A Slow\,\nCalculate
 d Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard\, will be published\nnext fall. He 
 is the marketing manager for Signature Books\, a\nscholarly publishing hou
 se in Salt Lake City\, Utah\, and is the father\nof three children and the
  grandfather of two. Ronald Collins is the\nformer Harold S. Shefelman sch
 olar at the University of Washington Law\nSchool. He served as a Supreme C
 ourt fellow for Chief Justice Warren\nBurger. He is the editor of the week
 ly blog First Amendment News and\nis on the editorial board of SCOTUSblog.
  He is also the co-chair of\nThe First Amendment Salons and the co-directo
 r of the History Book\nFestival. He is the author of some dozen books. He 
 has taught a class\non the Emmett Till tragedy three times\, the first of 
 which was offered\nunder the auspices of the Lewes Public Library. His nex
 t book\, Tragedy\non Trial\, is on the Emmett Till murder trial and its af
 termath. NOTE:\nthis meeting is being conducted through Zoom. You MUST REG
 ISTER to\nreceive instructions for joining the meeting. Venue: Lewes Publi
 c\nLibrary.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:“Mississippi Grand Jury Declines to Indict W
 oman in Emmett Till Murder Case” was the headline on August 9\, 2022. Th
 e woman is Carolyn Bryant Donham (now 88)\, who accused 14-year-old Emmett
  Till of whistling at her in 1955. Her late husband\, Roy Bryant\, was one
  of the men who murdered Till\, though an all-white jury acquitted the two
  defendants. Ms. Donham was again in the news when an unserved 1955 warran
 t for her arrest in the Till case was found in a Greenwood\, Mississippi c
 ourt basement. This year also saw the unauthorized release of her unpublis
 hed memoir\, which was dictated in 2008 to Donham’s daughter-in-law. And
  just recently\, a rare photo of her was taken. Now living in Kentucky\, i
 t was the first time in over two decades in which she had been seen in pub
 lic. How legally and morally culpable is Carolyn Bryant? And what about he
 r unpublished memoir? How much of it is true? Devery Anderson\, one of the
  leading Emmett Till scholars\, will answer such questions and others\, in
  conversation with Ronald Collins\, a retired law professor and the Librar
 y’s first Distinguished Lecturer. Devery Anderson is the author of Emmet
 t Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights M
 ovement. He earned a BA in history from the University of Utah and a Maste
 r’s in publishing from George Washington University. He is the editor or
  co-editor of four books related to Mormons and the West\, two of which wo
 n the Steven F. Christensen Award for Best Documentary from the Mormon His
 tory Association in 2006. His forthcoming book\, A Slow\, Calculated Lynch
 ing: The Story of Clyde Kennard\, will be published next fall. He is the m
 arketing manager for Signature Books\, a scholarly publishing house in Sal
 t Lake City\, Utah\, and is the father of three children and the grandfath
 er of two. Ronald Collins is the former Harold S. Shefelman scholar at the
  University of Washington Law School. He served as a Supreme Court fellow 
 for Chief Justice Warren Burger. He is the editor of the weekly blog First
  Amendment News and is on the editorial board of SCOTUSblog. He is also th
 e co-chair of The First Amendment Salons and the co-director of the Histor
 y Book Festival. He is the author of some dozen books. He has taught a cla
 ss on the Emmett Till tragedy three times\, the first of which was offered
  under the auspices of the Lewes Public Library. His next book\, Tragedy o
 n Trial\, is on the Emmett Till murder trial and its aftermath. NOTE: this
  meeting is being conducted through Zoom. You MUST REGISTER to receive ins
 tructions for joining the meeting. Venue: Lewes Public Library.
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