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* PoliceAreUseless: The police in league with the Ku Klux Klan down in Mississippi and they refuse to do their job in finding Emmett after he was kidnapped. It is only when Emmett's body is found by local citizens in the river is when they finally take action by arresting his killers Roy and J.W.

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* PoliceAreUseless: The police in league with the Ku Klux Klan down in Mississippi and they refuse to do their job in finding Emmett after he was kidnapped. It is only when Emmett's body is found by local citizens in the river is when they finally take action by arresting his killers killers.
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Roy Bryant and friend J.W. Milam, who killed Emmett out of racial hatred.

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Compare the film ''Film/{{Till}}'', which is [[DuelingWorks about the same story]] and was released in October 2022.

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Compare the film ''Film/{{Till}}'', which is [[DuelingWorks about the same story]] and was released in October 2022.2022, nine months after the miniseries.



* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Like the real-life murder, Emmett is brutally beaten, tied and dragged by car, wrapped with a barb wire and strapped to a cotton gin, burned, [[EyeScream have his right eye forcefully torn out]], and shot in the head before being dumped in the river. [[BodyHorror The brutality of the murder left his body and especially his face horrifically disfigured upon recognition]]. And it is all shown on-screen.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Emmett is viciously tortured and murdered for making comments towards a white woman in a grocery store.

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Like the real-life murder, Emmett is brutally beaten, tied and dragged by car, wrapped with a barb wire and strapped to a cotton gin, burned, [[EyeScream have his right eye forcefully torn cut out]], and shot in the head before being dumped in the river. [[BodyHorror The brutality of the murder left his body and especially his face horrifically disfigured upon recognition]]. And it is all shown on-screen.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Emmett is viciously brutally tortured and murdered for making comments towards a white woman in a grocery store.



* TheSavageSouth: Mamie is ''very'' worried that Emmett has to go to Mississippi, knowing how racially intolerant it is there compared to Chicago, and advises her son to keep a low profile. His lynching and murder there prove her right.
* SecondLove: Gene Mobley is Mamie's boyfriend in 1955, and he's not Emmett's father. In RealLife, Emmett's father Louis Till was executed by the U.S. Army in 1945 after being found guilty of sexually assaulting two white women and murdering a third.

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* PoliceAreUseless: The police in league with the Ku Klux Klan down in Mississippi and they refuse to do their job in finding Emmett after he was kidnapped. It is only when Emmett's body is found by local citizens in the river is when they finally take action by arresting his killers Roy and J.W.
* TheSavageSouth: Mamie is ''very'' worried that Emmett has to go to Mississippi, knowing how racially intolerant it is there compared to Chicago, and advises her son to keep a low profile. His lynching and murder down there prove proves her right.
* SecondLove: Gene Mobley is Mamie's boyfriend in 1955, and he's not Emmett's father. In RealLife, Emmett's father Louis Till was executed by the U.S. Army in 1945 after being found guilty of sexually assaulting two white women and murdering a third.



* WouldHurtAChild: Roy and J.W. ''do not'' care that Emmett is just a teenage boy. All they see in him is just someone who is not equal to them because of his skin color.

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* WouldHurtAChild: Roy and J.W. ''do not'' care that Emmett is just a teenage boy. All they see in him is just someone who is not equal inferior to them because of his skin color.color. After being kidnapped, Roy and J.W. at first beat Emmett before delving into a monstrous torture-fest after questioning him, concluding with him being dumped into the river.
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* DisappropriateRetribution: Emmett is viciously tortured and murdered for making comments towards a white woman in a grocery store.

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* DisappropriateRetribution: DisproportionateRetribution: Emmett is viciously tortured and murdered for making comments towards a white woman in a grocery store.
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* DisapproriateRetribution: Emmett is viciously tortured and murdered for making comments towards a white woman in a grocery store.

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* DisapproriateRetribution: DisappropriateRetribution: Emmett is viciously tortured and murdered for making comments towards a white woman in a grocery store.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Like the real-life murder, Emmett is brutally beaten, tied and dragged by car, wrapped with a barb wire and strapped to a cotton gin, burned, [[EyeScream have his right eye forcefully torn out]], and shot in the head before being dumped in the river. [[BodyHorror The brutality of the murder left his body and especially his face horrifically disfigured upon recognition]]. And it is all shown on-screen.
* DisapproriateRetribution: Emmett is viciously tortured and murdered for making comments towards a white woman in a grocery store.


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* WouldHurtAChild: Roy and J.W. ''do not'' care that Emmett is just a teenage boy. All they see in him is just someone who is not equal to them because of his skin color.
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Compare the film ''Film/{{Till}}'', which is about the same story and was released in October 2022.

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Compare the film ''Film/{{Till}}'', which is [[DuelingWorks about the same story story]] and was released in October 2022.
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Compare the film ''Film/{{Till}}'', which is about the same story and is due to release in October 2022.

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Compare the 2022 film ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till_(film) Till]]'' about the same story.

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Compare the 2022 film ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till_(film) Till]]'' ''Film/{{Till}}'', which is about the same story.
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Compare the 2022 film ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till_(film) Till]]''.

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''Women of the Movement'' is an American historical drama MiniSeries in six parts that premiered on Creator/{{ABC}} on January 6, 2022. Created and written by Marissa Jo Cerar, it stars Adrienne Warren, Creator/TonyaPinkins, Creator/GaryBasaraba, Cedric Joe, Creator/GlynnTurman, Creator/RayFisher, Creator/ChrisCoy, Julia [=McDermott=], Creator/CarterJenkins, Creator/GilBellows, Creator/LeslieSilva and Creator/TimothyHutton. The series is based on the book ''Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement'' by Devery S. Anderson.

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''Women of the Movement'' is an American historical drama MiniSeries in six parts that premiered on Creator/{{ABC}} on January 6, 2022. Created and written by Marissa Jo Cerar, it stars Adrienne Warren, Creator/AdrienneWarren, Creator/TonyaPinkins, Creator/GaryBasaraba, Cedric Joe, Creator/GlynnTurman, Creator/RayFisher, Creator/ChrisCoy, Julia [=McDermott=], Creator/CarterJenkins, Creator/GilBellows, Creator/LeslieSilva and Creator/TimothyHutton. The series is based on the book ''Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement'' by Devery S. Anderson.
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* SecondLove: Gene Mobley is Mamie's boyfriend and not Emmett's father. In RealLife, Emmett's father Louis Till was executed by the U.S. Army in 1945 after being found guilty of sexually assaulting two white women and murdering a third.

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* SecondLove: Gene Mobley is Mamie's boyfriend in 1955, and he's not Emmett's father. In RealLife, Emmett's father Louis Till was executed by the U.S. Army in 1945 after being found guilty of sexually assaulting two white women and murdering a third.
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In 1955 Mississippi, black teen Emmett Louis Till is viciously lynched and murdered after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. His mother Mamie Till starts devoting her life to make sure he will not be forgotten and to get justice for him, and this will ultimately help to spawn the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement.

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In 1955 Mississippi, black teen Emmett Louis Till is viciously lynched and murdered after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. His mother Mamie Till starts devoting her life fighting to make sure he will not be forgotten and to get justice for him, and this will ultimately help to spawn the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement.
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* TheFifties: The bulk of the story takes place after the murder of Emmett in 1955.

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* TheFifties: The bulk of the story takes place just before and then after the murder of Emmett in 1955.
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''Women of the Movement'' is an American historical drama MiniSeries in six parts that premiered on Creator/{{ABC}} on January 6, 2022. Created and written by Marissa Jo Cerar and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, it stars Adrienne Warren, Creator/TonyaPinkins, Creator/GaryBasaraba, Cedric Joe, Creator/GlynnTurman, Creator/RayFisher, Creator/ChrisCoy, Julia [=McDermott=], Creator/CarterJenkins, Creator/GilBellows, Creator/LeslieSilva and Creator/TimothyHutton. The series is based on the book ''Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement'' by Devery S. Anderson.

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''Women of the Movement'' is an American historical drama MiniSeries in six parts that premiered on Creator/{{ABC}} on January 6, 2022. Created and written by Marissa Jo Cerar and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, Cerar, it stars Adrienne Warren, Creator/TonyaPinkins, Creator/GaryBasaraba, Cedric Joe, Creator/GlynnTurman, Creator/RayFisher, Creator/ChrisCoy, Julia [=McDermott=], Creator/CarterJenkins, Creator/GilBellows, Creator/LeslieSilva and Creator/TimothyHutton. The series is based on the book ''Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement'' by Devery S. Anderson.
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''Women of the Movement'' is an American historical drama MiniSeries in four parts that premiered on Creator/{{ABC}} on January 6, 2022. Created and written by Marissa Jo Cerar and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, it stars Adrienne Warren, Creator/TonyaPinkins, Creator/GaryBasaraba, Cedric Joe, Creator/GlynnTurman, Creator/RayFisher, Creator/ChrisCoy, Julia [=McDermott=], Creator/CarterJenkins, Creator/GilBellows, Creator/LeslieSilva and Creator/TimothyHutton. The series is based on the book ''Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement'' by Devery S. Anderson.

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''Women of the Movement'' is an American historical drama MiniSeries in four six parts that premiered on Creator/{{ABC}} on January 6, 2022. Created and written by Marissa Jo Cerar and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, it stars Adrienne Warren, Creator/TonyaPinkins, Creator/GaryBasaraba, Cedric Joe, Creator/GlynnTurman, Creator/RayFisher, Creator/ChrisCoy, Julia [=McDermott=], Creator/CarterJenkins, Creator/GilBellows, Creator/LeslieSilva and Creator/TimothyHutton. The series is based on the book ''Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement'' by Devery S. Anderson.
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* {{Good Parent|s}}: Mamie has raised Emmett with love.
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* TheSavageSouth: Mamie is ''very'' worried that Emmett has to go to Mississippi, knowing how racially intolerant it is there compared to Chicago, and advises her son to keep a low profile. His lynching and murder there prove her right.
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* SecondLove: Gene Mobley is Mamie's boyfriend and not Emmett's father. In RealLife, Emmett's father Louis Till was executed by the U.S. Army in 1945 after being found guilty of sexually assaulting two white women and murdering a third.
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''Women of the Movement'' is an American historical drama MiniSeries in four parts that premiered on Creator/{{ABC}} on January 6, 2022. Created and written by Marissa Jo Cerar and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, it stars Adrienne Warren, Creator/TonyaPinkins, Creator/GaryBasaraba, Cedric Joe, Creator/GlynnTurman, Creator/RayFisher, Creator/ChrisCoy, Julia [=McDermott=], Creator/CarterJenkins and Creator/TimothyHutton. The series is based on the book ''Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement'' by Devery S. Anderson.

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''Women of the Movement'' is an American historical drama MiniSeries in four parts that premiered on Creator/{{ABC}} on January 6, 2022. Created and written by Marissa Jo Cerar and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, it stars Adrienne Warren, Creator/TonyaPinkins, Creator/GaryBasaraba, Cedric Joe, Creator/GlynnTurman, Creator/RayFisher, Creator/ChrisCoy, Julia [=McDermott=], Creator/CarterJenkins Creator/CarterJenkins, Creator/GilBellows, Creator/LeslieSilva and Creator/TimothyHutton. The series is based on the book ''Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement'' by Devery S. Anderson.
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''Women of the Movement'' is an American historical drama MiniSeries in four parts that premiered on Creator/{{ABC}} on January 6, 2022. Created and written by Marissa Jo Cerar and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, it stars Adrienne Warren, Creator/TonyaPinkins, Creator/GaryBasaraba, Cedric Joe, Creator/GlynnTurman, Creator/RayFisher, Creator/ChrisCoy, Julia [=McDermott=] and Creator/CarterJenkins. The series is based on the book ''Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement'' by Devery S. Anderson.

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''Women of the Movement'' is an American historical drama MiniSeries in four parts that premiered on Creator/{{ABC}} on January 6, 2022. Created and written by Marissa Jo Cerar and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, it stars Adrienne Warren, Creator/TonyaPinkins, Creator/GaryBasaraba, Cedric Joe, Creator/GlynnTurman, Creator/RayFisher, Creator/ChrisCoy, Julia [=McDermott=] [=McDermott=], Creator/CarterJenkins and Creator/CarterJenkins.Creator/TimothyHutton. The series is based on the book ''Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement'' by Devery S. Anderson.
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* TheFifties: The bulk of the story takes place after the murder of Emmett in 1955.
* StockFootage: Following Emmett's birth, there is footage of the U.S. Supreme Court declaring that segregated schools are unconstitutional (in 1954), burning crosses and parades of the UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan and black demonstrations to put an end to segregation.


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* TimeSkip: There's a 14-year time skip following the birth of Emmett.
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''Women of the Movement'' is an American historical drama MiniSeries in four parts that premiered on Creator/{{ABC}} on January 6, 2022. Created and written by Marissa Jo Cerar and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, it stars Adrienne Warren, Creator/TonyaPinkins, Creator/GaryBasaraba, Cedric Joe, Creator/GlynnTurman, Creator/RayFisher, Creator/ChrisCoy, Julia [=McDermott=] and Creator/CarterJenkins.

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''Women of the Movement'' is an American historical drama MiniSeries in four parts that premiered on Creator/{{ABC}} on January 6, 2022. Created and written by Marissa Jo Cerar and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, it stars Adrienne Warren, Creator/TonyaPinkins, Creator/GaryBasaraba, Cedric Joe, Creator/GlynnTurman, Creator/RayFisher, Creator/ChrisCoy, Julia [=McDermott=] and Creator/CarterJenkins.
Creator/CarterJenkins. The series is based on the book ''Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement'' by Devery S. Anderson.
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* TheForties: The series starts in 1941 with Emmett's birth.
* ThreeMonthOldNewborn: The baby actor used as newborn Emmett clearly wasn't newborn.
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''Women of the Movement'' is an American historical drama MiniSeries that premiered on Creator/{{ABC}} on January 6, 2022. Created and written by Marissa Jo Cerar and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, it stars Adrienne Warren, Creator/TonyaPinkins, Creator/GaryBasaraba, Cedric Joe, Creator/GlynnTurman, Creator/RayFisher, Creator/ChrisCoy, Julia [=McDermott=] and Creator/CarterJenkins.

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''Women of the Movement'' is an American historical drama MiniSeries in four parts that premiered on Creator/{{ABC}} on January 6, 2022. Created and written by Marissa Jo Cerar and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, it stars Adrienne Warren, Creator/TonyaPinkins, Creator/GaryBasaraba, Cedric Joe, Creator/GlynnTurman, Creator/RayFisher, Creator/ChrisCoy, Julia [=McDermott=] and Creator/CarterJenkins.



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In 1955 Mississippi, Mamie Till-Mobley's son, Emmett Louis Till, is viciously lynched and murdered. Mamie starts devoting her life to make sure he will not be forgotten and to get justice for him, and this will ultimately help to spawn the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement.

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In 1955 Mississippi, Mamie Till-Mobley's son, black teen Emmett Louis Till, Till is viciously lynched and murdered. murdered after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. His mother Mamie Till starts devoting her life to make sure he will not be forgotten and to get justice for him, and this will ultimately help to spawn the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement.
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''Women of the Movement'' is an American historical drama MiniSeries that premiered on Creator/{{ABC}} on January 6, 2022. Created and written by Marissa Jo Cerar and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, it stars Adrienne Warren, Creator/TonyaPinkins, Creator/GaryBasaraba, Cedric Joe, Creator/GlynnTurman, Creator/RayFisher, Creator/ChrisCoy, Julia [=McDermott=] and Creator/CarterJenkins.

In 1955 Mississippi, Mamie Till-Mobley's son, Emmett Louis Till, is viciously lynched and murdered. Mamie starts devoting her life to make sure he will not be forgotten and to get justice for him, and this will ultimately help to spawn the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement.
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