What did Emmett Till say to Carolyn Bryant? How old is Carolyn Bryant today?

Carolyn Bryant is the daughter of a plantation manager and a nurse.

Carolyn Bryant hailed from Indianola, Mississippi, the nucleus of the segregationist and supremacist white Citizens’ Councils.

Despite being a high school dropout, Carolyn Bryant won two beauty contests and married Roy Bryant, an ex-soldier.

Carolyn and Roy Bryant ran a small grocery, Bryant’s Grocery & Meat Market, that sold provisions to black sharecroppers and their children.

The store was located at one end of the main street in the tiny town of Money, the heart of the cotton-growing Mississippi Delta.

For six decades, Carolyn Bryant has been the silent woman linked to one of the most notorious crimes in the nation’s history, the lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy.

How old is Carolyn Bryant today?

Carolyn Bryant was born in 1934.

What did Emmett Till say to Carolyn Bryant?

During the murder trial, Carolyn Bryant testified that Emmett Till grabbed her hand while she was stocking candy and said, “How about a date, baby?”

Carolyn Bryant said that after she freed herself from his grasp, the young man followed her to the cash register, grabbed her waist and said, “What’s the matter baby, can’t you take it?”

Carolyn Bryant said she freed herself, and Till said, “You needn’t be afraid of me, baby”, used “one ‘unprintable’ word” and said “I’ve been with white women before.”

Carolyn Bryant also alleged that one of Till’s companions came into the store, grabbed him by the arm, and ordered him to leave.

However, according to historian Timothy Tyson, Bryant admitted to him in a 2008 interview that her testimony during the trial that Till had made verbal and physical advances was false.