Carolyn Bryant Donham and Emmett Till Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman at the center of Emmett Till’s death, has died at age 88. According to Mississippi Today and Megan LeBoeuf, chief investigator for the Calcasieu Parish coroner’s office, Donham was battling cancer and receiving hospice care. Regarding Donham’s death, Devery Anderson, author of Emmett Till: The Murder…