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Emmett Till's accuser recants claims that led to his death, author saysIt was the shocking picture that ignited the Civil Rights Movement: 14-year old Emmett Till in his casket.His mother Mamie wanted the nation to see the brutality of his killers.“I wondered, why was it necessary to shoot him?’” she said years later.Till was visiting family in Mississippi when a story started going around town that he had whistled at Carolyn Bryant, a 21-year old white cashier at a grocery store.After Till’s body was found a few days later, Bryant’s husband and brother-in-law were charged with murder. At the trial, Bryant testified Till made lewd advances, verbal and physical. “In court she testified to something that was tantamount to attempted rape. What she said was ‘that part’s not true,’” said author Tim Tyson.Continued: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/emmett-tills-accuser-recants-claims-that-led-to-his-death/
