Bryant and her husband, who was three years her senior, soon settled in Glendora, Miss., near J.W.
Bryant's account, her in-laws were heavy drinkers with pronounced streaks of violence and virulent racism. Among the Bryants and her husband's extended family, the Milams, she saw herself as "an innocent wandering into a place she didn't quite belong," Tyson wrote. "As I grew older," she wrote in an unpublished memoir cited in Tyson's book, "I learned that it was not okay to have black friends, our parents taught us that everyone deserves respect." Tyson wrote that she recalled a boyfriend taking her to a "hanging tree" where Black men were lynched for "actin' up."Ĭarolyn was 14 when she met Roy Bryant at a party and was 16 when they eloped. "So maybe he and I both got corrected."įollowing the death of her father, Carolyn moved with her family to Indianola, Miss. "I don't remember being around him much after that," Mrs.
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