Carolyn Bryant Donham Dies at 88; Her Words Doomed Emmett Till
A petite, attractive, dark-haired young woman, Carolyn won two high school beauty pageants. In 1951, at 16, she left school to elope with Mr. Bryant, a 20-year-old Army infantryman she had met at a party two years before. “According to other family members I’ve talked to, Carolyn was a little bit different than the rest…