Women of the Movement 2021 The series is based on the true story of Mamie Till Mobley, who in 1955 risked her life to find justice after her son Emmett was brutally murdered in the Jim Crow South Unwilling to let Emmetts murder disappear from the headlines, Mamie chose to bear her pain on the worlds stage, emerging as an activist for justice and igniting the Civil Rights movement as we know it today