Great point!
Her “wolf whistle” claim came at a point in sexual history when if a woman was raped the popular view was that she had been permanently dirtied in some sense;
‘spoiled”
Ergo “wolf whistled”, not raped.
His cousin remembered that whistle the rest of his life. Such a sad story.
Or not "raped" but "she seduced a young black kid and when her husband found out, she claimed she was raped and got the kid killed".
There's no point in conjecture here as to whether Till did anything. Some savage men committed a crime that would make a normal person sick to their stomachs. You can't make a case that Till did anything because of the fact that he was butchered and not allowed to testify.