News Grand jury declines to indict woman whose accusation led to Emmett Till lynching August 9, 2022August 10, 2022 N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY Comments Off on Grand jury declines to indict woman whose accusation led to Emmett Till lynching A grand jury declined to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman whose accusation led to the 1955 lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till.