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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, 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.
This is the sort of socially conscious, emotionally driven miniseries isn’t particularly adventurous in its by-the-history-books storytelling, Tony winner Adrienne Warren (Tina Turner in ) grounds the series with a powerfully impassioned performance as Mamie, a doting single mother facing her worst nightmare after she lets her beloved Emmett (earnest, exuberant Cedric Joe) travel from progressive Chicago to Mississippi to visit his uncle in August 1955.
