Women of the Movement
TV-MA (self-applied) ABC 45m 2022
Season(s): 1
The series is based on the true story of Mamie Till-Mobley, who in 1955 risked her life to find justice after her son Emmett was brutally murdered in the Jim Crow South. Unwilling to let Emmett's murder disappear from the headlines, Mamie chose to bear her pain on the world's stage, emerging as an activist for justice and igniting the Civil Rights movement as we know it today.
Starring: Adrienne Warren Tonya Pinkins Cedric Joe
Creator: Laurence "Jay" Brown