Woman Who Caused Emmett Till’s Death Admits to Lying

#TimothyTyson, a #Duke University senior research scholar, reveals that Carolyn—in 2007, at age 72—confessed that she had fabricated the most sensational part of her testimony. “That part’s not true,” she told Tyson, about her claim that Till had made verbal and physical advances on her.

One lie, police corruption, racism, and falsification of documentation denied #EmmettTill #justice and is mother #accountability

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/how-author-timothy-tyson-found-the-woman-at-the-center-of-the-emmett-till-case