In a scene that takes place in a funeral home, Till-Mobley views her son’s mutilated body for the first time. The 14-year-old was kidnapped, tortured and lynched by racists in the Jim Crow South after being accused of whistling at a white woman in a grocery store.
The sequence is intercut with glimpses of Till-Mobley lovingly caressing the baby Emmett in the hospital just moments after giving birth. “Women of the Movement” represents a breakthrough moment for broadcast television. Rarely has a major network explored in depth this violent moment in America’s racial history, and done so this unsparingly.
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