It was the lynching that outraged African Americans spurred the civil rights movement and etched

the victim's name in history, Emmett Till.

The 14-year-old Chicagoan was visiting relatives in the cotton country of the Mississippi Delta

on 24 August 1955 when he allegedly wolf-wistled at a white woman.

Three days later, his body was found in the Tallahatchee River.

Till had a bullet hole in his head, and eye gouged out and other wounds.

The murderers had wrapped barbed wire around his neck and waited him down with a cotton

gin fan.

It was a ghastly crime that changed the United States, but the woman at the center of

it, Carolyn Bryant, long remained in an Igmo.

A few weeks after the murder, the then 21-year-old testified in court that Till had grabbed

and verbally harassed her in a grocery store.

I was just scared to death, she said.

The all-white Jerry cleared her husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Millum of

the crime.

They later publicly admitted their guilt, saying they wanted to warn other blacks.

Carolyn Bryant disappeared from public view.

Now, 62 years later, it has emerged that she fabricated her testimony about Till, making

physical and verbal advances.

Following the accusations against Brett Kavanaugh by Christine Lazyford, many people on the right

were saying that she was probably lying, and that false accusations are relatively common.

So I decided to look into the data, and I found something rather alarming, at least

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