Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman at the center of the Emmett Till lynching nearly 70 years ago, has died.

The 88-year-old had been battling cancer and was in hospice care, Mississippi Today reported Thursday.

Donham had been accused of setting off the 1955 lynching of the 14-year-old.

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Her death comes after a Mississippi grand jury declined to indict her in August last year over Till’s death.

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Carolyn Bryant Donham, woman at center of Emmett Till killing, dead at 88

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