Carolyn Donham Dead

Get your history lesson here! Every week we're going to share American history that might conveniently be missing from classrooms and textbooks. We're going to let you see not only the victim, but also the perpetrator. For years you may have seen mugshots or negative displays of Black people. We want to be fair. We want you to put a face with the crime and we want you to know the real story. The two men who confessed to the murder, after they were acquitted, never paid for their crimes. Take time to view pictures of young Emmett before and after the brutal murder. Every Saturday we will have another lesson. We began this week with this horrific story.

DAILY MAIL EXCLUSIVE:

The white woman, 88, who triggered the lynching of Emmett Till, is seen for the first time in 20 YEARS as she lives out final days cancer-stricken and in hospice care at her Kentucky home

• Carolyn Bryant Donham, now 88, has managed to go unseen since 2004, going on to live a long life - and now spending her final days in apparent tranquility - despite her role in 14-year-old

Emmett Till's lynching in 1955

• At the time Donham was a 21-year-old married mother-of-two who accused the young Black boy of whistling at her - a violation of the South's racist societal codes - at a Mississippi store, setting off his brutal murder

• Today, she is living in a small apartment community in Kentucky with her son, Thomas Bryant, 71,

• Donham, who was wearing a nasal cannula looped over her ears and into her nose, suffers from cancer, is legally blind, and is receiving end of life hospice care in her home

• When approached by DailyMail.com, Donham stood by silently behind her son, who shook his head when asked if either would speak about Till

• Till's beaten and mutilated body was thrown in the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi, weighted down with a large fan from a cotton gin, before being pulled out three days later on August 28

• Donham's then husband Roy Bryant and his brother John Milam were later tried and acquitted of Till's murder, while she went on to evade charges or any consequences in a case that shocked the world for its brutality