Women of the Movement

After the murder of Emmett Till, a mother’s grief turns into activism

- By Matt Roush, Photography by ABC/Eli Joshua Ade

LIMITED SERIES PREMIERE Thursday, Jan. 6, 8/7c, ABC

HELL HATH NO fury like a mother grieving an unjustly slain son, and few had the lasting social impact of Mamie Till-Mobley. Airing over three Thursdays (continuing January 13 and 20), Women of the Movement is primarily Mamie’s story, is about a woman who helped ignite the Civil Rights Movement after her sorrow hardens into a grim resolve to not let her 14-year-old boy be forgotten.