WUNC: “This month marks 67 years since Emmett Till was brutally murdered and lynched, for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The Black teenager, who lived in Chicago, was on summer vacation in Money, Mississippi when it happened.
Last week, outside the legislative building in Raleigh, a small group of activists, or “foot soldiers,” pulled out “Wanted” signs.
“And we need her locked up!” said John Barnett. “So Mrs. Carolyn Donham, you have now been put on notice that you are ‘wanted’ by Mississippi and more importantly, Raleigh, North Carolina.”
Barnett of Charlotte is the founder of THUG – True Healing Under God. He is convinced that Donham, the white woman who said she was disrespected by Till and allegedly helped her husband and brother-in-law find and murder him, is still alive.
“It’s amazing they can go to the moon, but they can’t find Carolyn Bryant Donham,” said Barnett. “She’s still alive, we haven’t had a funeral service for her. So I wonder, where is she?”
The Rev. Nathaniel Cox of Grace AME Zion Church in Raleigh, joined Barnett in prayer outside the legislative building. Cox says his prayers are for Till and all Black boys who have not gotten the justice they deserve.
“God, right now, all over our nation and all over the world God, just like out the book of Revelation, we cry out, how long? How long will we suffer?” said Cox. “God, how long God, will we suffer under the weight of systemic racism, God?”
The search for Donham picked up steam in two months ago. That is when a group of people, including Till’s family members, found the unserved 1955 warrant for Donham’s arrest. It was in the basement of the Leflore County, Mississippi courthouse.”