Carolyn Bryant is the daughter of a plantation manager and a nurse.
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Carolyn Bryant hailed from Indianola, Mississippi, the nucleus of the segregationist and supremacist white Citizens’ Councils.
Carolyn Bryant Family
Despite being a high school dropout, Carolyn Bryant won two beauty contests and married Roy Bryant, an ex-soldier.
Carolyn and Roy Bryant ran a small grocery, Bryant’s Grocery & Meat Market, that sold provisions to black sharecroppers and their children.
The store was located at one end of the main street in the tiny town of Money, the heart of the cotton-growing Mississippi Delta.
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To earn extra cash, Roy Bryant worked as a trucker with his half-brother J. W. Milam, an imposing man of six feet two inches, weighing 235 pounds.
Milam prided himself on knowing how to “handle” blacks. He had served in World War II and received combat medals.

Carolyn Bryant Children
Carolyn Bryant and Roy Bryant had two sons and lived in two small rooms in the back of the store.
Is Carolyn Bryant Alive?
Carolyn Bryant is still alive. She was born in 1934.


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