Family members of Emmett Till, a teenage boy from Chicago lynched in Mississippi in 1955 because he allegedly whistled at a white woman, have uncovered a warrant for the woman and are demanding she be arrested for her part in Till’s murder, the Associated Press reports.

The warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham, currently a North Carolina resident in her late 80s, was issued because she told her husband and others that the boy had whistled at her while she worked in a store.  Her husband, Roy Bryant, and another man showed up at Till’s great-uncle’s house, where the boy was visiting on his trip from Chicago, and kidnapped Emmett at gunpoint.  Till’s body–grotesquely disfigured because of torture–was found later in the nearby Tallahatchie river.  His mother ordered his viewing to feature an open casket to exhibit the brutality of his racist murderers, and the image of his disfigured corpse became a rallying point for the civil rights movement.

Written out for “Mrs. Roy Bryant,” the warrant reportedly was not served because Bryant was a mother with two small children she had to care for, the Leflore County sheriff at the time said. 

Bryant reportedly identified Till to her husband and another man, John William Milam, raising their anger and stoking the men’s anger until they sought to attack Till, who violated societal norms in the Jim Crow South by commenting on a white woman.  Roy Bryant and JW Milam were acquitted by a Mississippi jury comprised of all white people; they admitted to killing Till in a 1956 magazine interview for which they were each paid $4,000 after the trial.