Women of the Movement
TV Guide Magazine|January 3 - 16, 2022
After the murder of Emmett Till, a mother’s grief turns into activism
By Matt Roush, Photography by ABC/Eli Joshua Ade
Women of the Movement

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.

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