I Am More Than a Wolf Whistle

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I Am More than a Wolf Whistle: The Story of Carolyn Bryant Donham is a memoir by Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who accused Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy, of grabbing her and making sexual advances at a Mississippi store in 1955, which resulted in Till's lynching at the hands of Donham's husband and brother-in-law. The first-third of the memoir focuses on Donham's early life in the South, in which Donham recalls growing up on the Archer Plantation outside of Cruger, Mississippi and a relationship with her boyfriend. The last two-thirds of the book focuses on the events surrounding Till's interaction with Donham, his kidnapping and death, and the aftermath of the events. It concludes with Donham's statement where she considers herself a victim alongside Till. The existence of I Am More than a Wolf Whistle was first revealed when historian Timothy Tyson interviewed Donham in 2008. Donham gave a manuscript copy of the memoir to Tyson, making an agreement that the...

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