Today at its Winter TCA press conference, ABC unveiled a behind-the-scenes featurette and first look photos for Women of the Movement, starring Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren.In the upcoming limited series, Warren portrays Mamie Till-Mobley, who in 1955 risked her life to find justice after her son Emmett (Cedric Joe) 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.Women of the Movement also stars Tonya Pinkins, Ray Fisher, Glynn Turman, Chris Coy, Carter Jenkins and Julia McDermott.Kapital Entertainment is producing the series from
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