<p class="" style="margin-left:16px;">The men who killed Till were evil. She doesn't seem to have been a willing participant and was, herself, brutalized by one of the malevolent killers. That doesn't detract from the depravity of the crime, but certainly provides some perspective. 

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<p class="" style="margin-left:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;">"Ms. Donham told him that soon after the killing, her husband’s family hid her away, moving her from place to place for days, to keep her from talking to law enforcement.

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<p class="" style="margin-left:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;">She has said that Roy Bryant, whom she later divorced, was physically abusive to her.

<p class="" style="margin-left:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;">“The circumstances under which she told the story were coercive,” Dr. Tyson said. “She’s horrified by it. There’s clearly a great burden of guilt and sorrow."

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