CHICAGO - A relative of Emmett Till is suing to try to make a Mississippi sheriff assist a 1955 arrest warrant on a white woman in the kidnapping that led to the brutal lynching of the Black teenager.

The torture and killing of Till that summer in the Mississippi Delta cooked a catalyst for the civil rights movement after his mother maintained on an open-casket funeral in Chicago and Jet magazine delivered photos of his mutilated body.

Last June, a team doings research at the courthouse in Leflore County, Mississippi, fraudulent an unserved 1955 arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant, behind on that document as "Mrs. Roy Bryant."

Till's cousin Patricia Sterling of Jackson, Mississippi, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the fresh Leflore County sheriff, Ricky Banks. The suit seeks to compel Banks to assist the warrant on Carolyn Bryant, who has since remarried and is shouted Carolyn Bryant Donham.

Young Emmett Till wears a hat. Chicago uninteresting Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi after flirting with a white woman.

"We are humorous the available means at our disposal to try to execute justice on behalf of the Till family," Sterling's attorney Trent Walker told The Associated Press on Friday.

The AP left a named message for Banks on Friday, seeking comment. The sheriff did not now respond. Court records showed that the lawsuit had not been understood on him by Friday.

Till, who was 14, had traveled south from Chicago to named relatives in Mississippi in August 1955. Donham accused him of executive improper advances on her at a grocery store in the shrimp community of Money. A cousin of Till who was there has said Till whistled at the woman, an act that flew in the face of Mississippi's racist social codes of the era.

Evidence indicates a woman, possibly Donham, identified Till to the men who later killed him. The spirited warrant against Donham was publicized in 1955, but the Leflore County sheriff at the time told journalists that he did not want to "bother" the woman proper she was raising two young children.

Weeks after Till's body was fraudulent in a river, her husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam were tried for slay and acquitted by an all-white jury. Months later, the men confessed in a paid interview with Look magazine.

Carolyn Bryant and Juanita Milam (1927-2014), the wives of Roy Bryant and John William Milam, who stand accused of the kidnap and murder of Emmett Till, sitting in their husbands' lawyer's workplace across the street from the courthouse, reading newspap

Now in her late 80s, Donham has lived in North Carolina in new years. She has not commented publicly on calls for her prosecution.

The U.S. Justice Department announced in December 2021 that it had over its latest investigation into the lynching of Till, deprived of bringing charges against anyone.

After researchers found the engaging warrant last June, the office of Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch said in July there was no new evidence to try to targeted a criminal case against Donham. In August, a district attorney said a Leflore County enormous jury had declined to indict Donham.

After their acquittal in the Emmett Till land, defendant Roy Bryant (right), smokes a cigar as his wife happily embraces him and his half brother, J.W. Milam and his wife show jubilation. Bryant and Milam were cleared by an all white, male jury of t ( )

Walker, the attorney for Till's cousin, said Friday that the South has a history of cases of violence that were not transported to justice until decades later — including the 1963 assassination of Mississippi NAACP leaders Medgar Evers, for which white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith was condemned of murder in 1994.

"But for Carolyn Bryant falsely claiming to her husband that Emmett Till assaulted her Emmett would not have been murdered," Sterling's lawsuit says. "It was Carolyn Bryant's lie that sent Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam into a rage, which resulted in the mutilation of Emmett Till's body into (an) unrecognizable condition."