Family Member of Emmett Till Files Federal Lawsuit to Arrest His Accuser

A cousin of Emmett Till has filed a lawsuit urging a Mississippi sheriff to serve Till’s accuser, Carolyn Bryant, with an arrest warrant.

At 14 years old, Emmett Till, a Black boy visiting family in Mississippi in 1955, was brutally tortured and lynched after he was falsely accused by Bryant of whistling at her.

Last year, an unserved arrest warrant for Bryant from 1955 was found in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse.

Now, Till’s cousin, Priscilla Sterling, has filed a federal lawsuit in the hopes of seeing Bryant held accountable for her actions.

According to the lawsuit, which was filed on February 7th, the state “systematically avoided law enforcement in cases when the victim is Black, and the perpetrator is white,” violating federal law.

“The pain and suffering of the Till family never go away, particularly because no one has ever been held accountable for the brutal murder of my cousin Emmett Till,” Sterling said in a statement.

“We shall not rest until Carolyn Bryant is brought to complete justice in Mississippi.”

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