‘Women of The Movement:’ The Best Miniseries I’ll Never Watch Again
The story of Emmett Till is heartbreaking.
Growing up as a Black person, we hear these stories like poor Emmett’s and they are cautionary, illuminating a gut wrenching truth: people who hate you don’t care about how young you are. They will harm you just the same.
These stories are part of “the talk” most Black children get.
However, as much as we told the story of Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, I personally had never seen a show, much less a series or documentary on their tragic story. (I’m almost positive they exist, I just hadn’t seen one.)
I knew once Women of the Movement, airing on ABC, was announced back in December of 2021, that, while I wanted to support it, I was hesitant to open myself up to one of our culture’s most painful stories.
Emmett Till, a fourteen year old Black boy who traveled from Chicago to Money, Mississippi to be with family during the summer, was brutality lynched by a gang of white men for a supposed altercation with a white woman, Carolyn Bryant-Dunham.
