Play Gives Woman At The Center Of Emmett Till's Murder Case A Voice

Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: On this day in 1955, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago, Emmett Till, was killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman in the tiny hamlet of Money, Miss. That woman, Carolyn Bryant, withdrew into obscurity for decades. Now her story's being re-examined by two artists. And Karen Grigsby Bates from our Code Switch team has this report. KAREN GRIGSBY BATES, BYLINE: Emmett Till's abduction, torture and death remain one of the country's most haunting race crimes. At his mother's insistence, Till's mutilated body lay in an open casket in his home church in Chicago. The men who were acquitted of killing him are both long dead. The woman whose accusal sparked the murder is now in her 80s living quietly in an undisclosed location. Director Nataki Garrett and actor Andrea LeBlanc had worked together on several projects when they were students at the California Institute of the Arts, or CalArts, in the early 2000s. Back in 2007,