"Women of the Movement" Gets Companion Doc Series "Let the World See"

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ABC’s "Women of the Movement" Gets Companion Doc Series
by Rick Porter
December 2, 2021


ABC’s limited series "Women of the Movement", about the life of civil rights activist Mamie Till-Mobley, is getting a nonfiction companion.

ABC News and the show’s producers — who include Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, Will Smith and Kapital Entertainment’s Aaron Kaplan — are behind a docuseries titled "Let the World See" that will delve into the events that "Women of the Movement" dramatizes.

It will follow "Women of the Movement" at 10 p.m. Thursdays starting Jan. 6.




"Let the World See" will trace Till-Mobley’s fight to have the body of her murdered son, Emmitt Till, taken from Mississippi to their hometown of Chicago and how her decision to have an open casket funeral proved to be a pivotal point in the civil rights movement.

It will also examine how the Till family has continued Till-Mobley’s work in the present day.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv...es-1235056279/

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Nia Long Signs On to ABC’s "Let the World See", Giving Voice to Mamie Till-Mobley
by Greg Evans
Dec. 22, 2021


Actress and producer Nia Long has signed on to ABC’s "Let the World See", a limited docuseries chronicling Mamie Till-Mobley’s quest for justice that sparked the civil rights movement after her son Emmett Till’s brutal murder.

Long will read excerpts from Till-Mobley’s memoir "Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America", ABC News announced.




Till's cousins Rev. Wheeler Parker, who was a witness to Emmett’s abduction, as well as Thelma Wright, Ollie Gordon and Amos Smith will add context and a deeper explanation to the racial climate and chain of events that led Till-Mobley to make the decision to have an open-casket funeral for the world to see what happened to her son.

Former first lady Michelle Obama will also appear.

https://deadline.com/2021/12/nia-lon...ey-1234900813/