> Donham set off the case in August 1955 by accusing the 14-year-old Till of making improper advances at a family store in Money, Mississippi.

This is so misogynistic. The responsibility for kidnapping and murder falls squarely on the men who did it.

Blaming a woman for saying she was sexually harassed seems pretty backward.

In addition, consider this was 1950’s rural Mississippi. The power imbalances between husbands and wives would have been huge. Any man capable of such horrific violence to a 14 year old child, would more than likely have been a domestic abuser as well. I really doubt that she had a lot of options for going against her husband.