Wiki Bio / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Carolyn Bryant (maiden name Carolyn Holloway) is a former store owner and the wife of Roy Bryant. Back in 1955, Roy admitted to killing a 14-year-old African American boy named Emmett Till after Carolyn lied that he made aggressive sexual advances towards her.
- Until this day, Carolyn has not apologized for the role she played in young Till’s death and has shown no genuine remorse.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Carolyn Bryant was born in Indianola, Mississippi, in 1934. Her mother worked as a nurse while her father managed a plantation in this segregated town.
- She was a high school dropout and former 2-time beauty pageant winner when she married ex-soldier and white supremacist Roy Bryant.
- Years later, Carolyn and Roy divorced, and she even remarried twice. She had two children with Roy before they went for a divorce.
Career, Profession and Occupation :
- Prior to their separation, Roy and Carolyn had started their grocery shop called Bryant’s Grocery & Meat Market. They mainly catered to black sharecroppers who, along with their families and other black inhabitants of the town, were not allowed to shop in areas designated for white people.
Murder of Emmett Till :
- On August 24, 1955, Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old boy, went to Carolyn and Roy’s store to buy gum. Bryant alleged that Till flirted, grabbed, and threatened her inside the store.
- She told her husband, Roy, and brother-in-law, J.W. Milam, who then ambushed Till when he was asleep at home at 2.30 in the morning on August 28. Bryant and Milam tortured the young boy before lynching him.
- Although the two men were arrested, they were found ‘Not Guilty’ of the murder on September 23, 1955, after a jury consisting of only white men decided to let them off the hook after just a 67-minute deliberation.
- Milam and Bryant later admitted to killing Till after being paid $4000 by Look Magazine. They told their story to the magazine but were never arrested. Neither of the two men showed remorse for their actions.
- In 2007, an author named Timothy Tyson interviewed Carolyn, who confessed that Emmett was innocent and that Carolyn had lied about the entire situation. Vanity Fair published the story 10 years later, on January 26, 2017.
- Despite her lies leading to the death of an innocent teenager, Carolyn has never apologized nor repented and even refused to visit the Emmett Till Interpretive Center which was built in Summer, Mississippi to honor Till. She remains largely in hiding and has made no effort to contribute to a more progressive society.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Till’s death led to many people protesting in outrage and was a big influence in the Civil Rights Movement. During the same year of his death, on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, who lived in Montgomery, Alabama, made history and sparked a boycott after she refused to sit at the back of a bus as was expected of people of color during racial segregation.
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Sounds like he at least whistled at her and that she may not have lied at all…that we don’t have proof as it was not on the interview tape.
May Carolyn will burn in hell for what she did to that young boy. I feel that she should be put in jail no matter how old she is. She still has to meet her maker one day and I don’t think she will be pleased to see him.
Carolyn Bryant and accomplishes, get ready to meet your faith in hell. That’s where you all belong!
Carolyn Bryant is responsible for everything that happened in Mississippi back in 1955. She should be turned to the FBI. She admitted it was a nasty lie.
The assertion that she was lying has never been proved. Even the media’s sources lead to a dead end, a book where the author claims she admitted it during their interview, but the interview was recorded and she said no such thing during it.
I just finished reading the article Atlantic, Sept 2021 THE BARN by WRIGHT THOMPSON. This is the barn where the Child EMMETT TILL was tortured and murdered. Sorrowfully Sad. It appears Carolyn Bryant is still alive and efforts to put her in jail failed. Also, VERY SAD!!
I’m an old white dude who strongly believes: BLACK LIVES MATTER!!
This Atlantic looks back at the previous article, “The War on Nostalgia”: “The myth of the Lost Cause is passed down like an heirloom, Clint Smith wrote in June. What would it take for the truth it break through?” Clint Smith advises: Confederate History is family history, history as a eulogy, in which loyalty takes precedence over truth” Smith also: Perhaps the Sons of Confederate Veterans should consider this advice from Voltaire “We owe respect to the living; to the dead, we owe only truth.” Forgiveness. How do you do this? I read a “HOW” from Charleston, South Carolina: Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Nine of their members were killed during a Bible study.
My respect for that Congregation’s Forgiveness cannot be expressed in words!! I don’t have them. What Glory, Graciousness I cannot imagine. Easy to hate Carolyn Bryant! Much more difficult to forgive. Which is best for me?
In today’s society, there still is no justice no peace for Black Lives Matter. There is still ‘white privilege’ in the USA. It’s a shame before God they have to right laws for us to get equal justice because justice is still BLIND!!!
For those interested, according to the ‘Indianola High School Year Book 1951′: her name was
Carolyn Holloway age 16 (born about 1935).
There is also a photo of her.
I wish I could have uploaded the yearbook photo. I found it on the Ancestry website.
In my opinion, if she lied, SHE murdered this young 14 year old. She may not have physically ended his life but SHE murdered him.
Agreed…She caused his horrible death with her lies! She should be punished, regardless of how long ago it was.
Carolyn was born on July 23, 1934. I have proof.
She needs to do her time in jail. Period!
This is the AMERICA we reside in, but Mr Bill Cosby is in jail, blind and 90? Where is his presidential pardon…where is his home detention instead of incarceration?
– Justice MIA in USA
Carolyn Bryant never admitted to lying but a hack claimed she did. There’s no reason to think she made the story up as Emmett Till was known to wolf whistle women, according to his friend.
I pray that Carolyn, gets a first class ride to hell!
Emmitt Till died in August 24, 1955 not 1995.
Emmitt Till’s gravestone says August 28, 1955.
August 28th. And what do you mean by that.
THE BOWELS OF HELL IS NOW THEIR RESIDENCE. THEY WERE BORN EVIL. MAY HER AND THE REST OF HER TRIBE ROT IN THE BOWELS OF HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY!
Not yet. Jail Carolyn now before it’s too late to put the cuffs on her for what she did. There is no statute of limits where murder is involved.
Justice Department Do Your Job
I couldn’t agree more. They will face judgement and will continue to burn in HELL where they belong. Everyone who was involved from the murderers, accuser, jury and judge. God is a God of justice and righteousness!!!