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The second episode, directed by Tina Mabry ('Mississippi Damned'), chronicles the discovery of Emmett's body and ends with the grieving mother's decision to allow Jet magazine photographers to take and publish pictures of her son's mangled face and to host a public open-casket funeral.

('Women of the Movement' was shot earlier this year in and around Memphis, Ripley, Tennessee, and Greenwood, Mississippi, near where much of the real-life events occurred.) Memphis locations were used to representВ Chicago in several scenes. The first episode, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood ('Love & Basketball'), depicts Emmett's traumatic birth and ends with the phone call to Mamie Till in Chicago that informs Ms.

IN MISSISSIPPI: 'Un(re)solved' exhibit focuses on civil rights-era killingsДЇOR SUBSCRIBERS: On the anniversary of his death, a bullet-ridden sign tells the story of Emmett Till The panel, which lasted close to 45 minutes, was preceded by a preview of the first two episodes of 'Women of the Movement.' Members of the public registered in advance through the civil rights museum's websiteВ to watch the episodes and the panel on their home screens. Marvel Parker (the couple has been married 54 years). 'I was shaking like a leaf on the tree,' said Parker, who was joined on the panel by his wife, Dr. Wheeler Parker, a Chicago cousin who went SouthВ with Emmett for that fateful summer trip and who was in the crowded house near Money, Mississippi, when Emmett was abducted. Also presentВ - the far-flung panelists interacted via ZoomВ - were Marissa Jo Cerar, creator and showrunner for 'Women of the Movement' ChristopherВ Benson, who with Mamie Till-Mobley wrote 'Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America,' a book that was a key resource for the filmmakers Ollie Gordon, a cousin who was livingВ in the Till household when Emmett was killed and the Rev. Warren and Cedric Joe joined actors Glynn Turman, Tonya Pinkins and Ray Fisher on the panel, which was moderated byВ Faith Morris, the museum's chief marketing and external affairs officer. 'There are stories like this that are going on now,' said young actor CedricВ Joe (recently seen asВ LeBron James' son in 'Space Jam: A New Legacy,')В who portrays the 14-year-old Emmett. The reference to 'these mothers' was one of the first of several acknowledgments throughout the discussion that the killings of Black citizens suspected of minor infractions (Emmett Till reportedly wolf-whistled at a white woman) continues today, a tragic reality that panelists said makes 'Women of the Movement' particularly timely. They are forced into those positions against their will, and you never get to see how they become so strong.' WarrenВ - who won the Tony Award for best lead actress in a musical, for her performance in 'Tina: The Tina Turner Musical,' which was co-written by Memphis' Katori HallВ - said she hopes her performance was 'as honest as possible,' and would 'give a little insight into what these mothers had to go through.

'As a Black woman, as an artist and as a human being, I'm curious as to how do we become the warriors that people perceive us to be,' said Adrienne Warren, who portrays Mamie Till (later Mamie Till-Mobley) in the six-episode series.

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Writers, producers, actors and members of the Emmett Till family participated Wednesday night in a National Civil Rights Museum-hosted online panel discussion and public preview of the upcoming ABC-TV series 'Women of the Movement,' which dramatizes the 1955 Mississippi murder that transformed Emmett's mother, Mamie Till, into a crusader for civil rightsВ and racial justice. View Gallery: The Emmett Till Case: Gallery